Effect of Gestational Stress pa Maternal Behavior in Response to Cage Transfer and Handling of Pups in Two Strains of Rat

Stress

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-95

  Poltyrev, T ^a   Weinstock, M ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gestational stress; Individual behavior; Pup directed behavior; Rat strains

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LICKING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SITTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; GROOMING; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HOUSING, ANIMAL; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NOISE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032875378     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253899909001114     Document Type: Article

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