Coping styles in animals: Current status in behavior and stress- physiology

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 925-935

  Koolhaas, J M ^a   Korte, S M ^b   De Boer, S F ^a   Van Der Vegt, B J ^a   Van Reenen, C G ^b   Hopster, H ^b   De Jong, I C ^a,b   Ruis, M A W ^b   Blokhuis, H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggression; Coping; Corticosterone; Disease; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032712677     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(99)00026-3     Document Type: Article

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