Rat sex and strain differences in responses to stress

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 507-522

  Faraday, Martha M ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

ASR; Body weight; Feeding; Individual differences; Long Evans rats; Open field activity; PPI; Restraint stress; Sex differences; Sprague Dawley rats; Strain differences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0036534933     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(02)00645-5     Document Type: Article

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