Defeat is a major stressor in males while social instability is stressful mainly in females: Towards the development of a social stress model in female rats

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-39

  Haller, József ^a   Fuchs, Eberhard ^b   Halász, József ^a   Makara, Gábor B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Female; Male; Model; Rat; Social stress

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL GLAND; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; THYMUS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROWDING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; MALE; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032857377     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(99)00087-8     Document Type: Article

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