Artificial rearing causes changes in maternal behavior and c-fos expression in juvenile female rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 999-1013

  Gonzalez, Andrea ^a   Fleming, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; JUVENILE; LICKING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PLAY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRIFORM CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REARING; TACTILE STIMULATION; TIME;

EID: 0036896415     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.116.6.999     Document Type: Article

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