Effects of maternal-melatonin treatment on open-field behaviors and hypertensive phenotype in spontaneously hypertensive rats' (SHR) offspring

Experimental Animals

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-74

  Kim, Choong Yong ^a   Lee, Byeong Noh ^a   Kim, Jin Suk ^b  

^a University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Behavior; Blood pressure; Melatonin; Open field; SHR

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MELATONIN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR;

EID: 0036357033     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.51.69     Document Type: Article

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