Diazepam has no beneficial effects on stress-induced behavioural and endocrine changes in male tree shrews

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 539-546

  Van Kampen, Marja ^a   Schmitt, Ulrich ^b   Hiemke, Christoph ^b   Fuchs, Eberhard ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal models; Anxiety; Avoidance behavior; Cortisol; Depression; Locomotor activity; Marking behavior; Noradrenaline; Stress

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; INSECTIVORE; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; DIAZEPAM; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TUPAIIDAE;

EID: 0033952458     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(99)00190-2     Document Type: Article

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