The positive effects of postnatal handling on defensive burying are more obvious in a situation that enlarges the potential coping responses

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-73

  Roy, Vincent ^a   Chapillon, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Coping; DA HAN rats; Defensive behaviours; Postnatal handling; Probe burying

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0037126175     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00095-5     Document Type: Article

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