Social defeat and subordination as models of social stress in laboratory rodents: A review

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 241-256

  Martinez, Manuela ^a   Calvo Torrent, Angels ^a   Pico Alfonso, Maria Angeles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aggression; Animal models; Defeat; Review; Social stress; Subordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040579160     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1998)24:4<241::aid-ab1>3.0.co;2-m     Document Type: Review

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