Dissociable effects of isolation rearing and environmental enrichment on exploration, spatial learning and HPA activity in adult rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 209-224

  Schrijver, Nicole C A ^a   Bahr, Nina I ^a   Weiss, Isabelle C ^a   Würbel, Hanno ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ACTH; Anxiety; Behavior; Corticosterone; Environmental enrichment; Exploration; Learning; Memory; Novelty; Rats; Social isolation; Standardization; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; WEANING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS;

EID: 0035985570     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(02)00790-6     Document Type: Article

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