Overcrowding induces anxiety and causes loss of serotonin 5HT-1a receptors in rats

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 287-295

  Daniels, Willie M U ^a   Pietersen, Charmaine Y ^a   Carstens, Machteld E ^a   Daya, Santy ^b   Stein, Dan ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavior; Hippocampus rats; Overcrowding; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; DEFECATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GROOMING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; REARING; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CROWDING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; PREGNANCY; RATS; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1;

EID: 0034446003     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011123208674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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