Effects of neonatal handling on basal and stress-induced monoamine levels in the male and female rat brain

Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 195-206

  Papaioannou, A ^a   Dafni, U ^a   Alikaridis, F ^b   Bolaris, S ^a   Stylianopoulou, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Monoamines; Neonatal handling; Rat brain; Serotonin; Stress

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MONOAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; SWIMMING;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PUBERTY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037130593     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00129-X     Document Type: Article

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