Adrenocortical response to stress in fasted and unfasted artificially reared 12-day-old rat pups

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 245-250

  Ward, Glenn ^a   Xing, Hua Cheng ^a   Carnide, Nancy ^a   Slivchak, Jane ^a   Wainwright, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial rearing; Corticosterone; Development; Maternal deprivation; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PERINATAL PERIOD; RAT; REARING; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORTICOSTERONE; FASTING; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEANING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 10644230915     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20029     Document Type: Article

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