Housing familiar male wildtype rats together reduces the long-term adverse behavioural and physiological effects of social defeat

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 285-300

  Ruis, M A W ^a,b   Te Brake, J H A ^a   Buwalda, B ^b   De Boer, S F ^b   Meerlo, P ^b   Korte, S M ^a   Blokhuis, H J ^a   Koolhaas, J M ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Combined DEX CRF test; Depression; Housing conditions; Organ weights; Social stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HOSTILITY; HOUSING; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEXAMETHASONE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; SEMINAL VESICLES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; THYMUS GLAND; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0033014084     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(98)00050-X     Document Type: Article

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