Effect of prenatal stress and gonadal hormone condition on depressive behaviors of female and male rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 319-326

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a   Wawrzycki, JoAnna ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Androgen; Anxiety; Depression; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIESTRUS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECIES COMPARISON;

EID: 0242721401     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0018-506X(03)00159-4     Document Type: Article

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