Emotional behavior in female rabbits: Hippocampal EEG and neuroendocrine aspects

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 263-278

  Fontani, G ^a   Aloisi, A M ^a   Lodi, L ^a   Maffei, D ^a   Ulivieri, F ^a   Lupo, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; STIMULUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ACCIPITRINAE; ANIMALIA; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0033031838     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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