Compulsive-like behaviour according to the sex and the reproductive stage of female rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 313-319

  Agrati, Daniella ^a   Fernández Guasti, Alonso ^b   Zuluaga, María José ^a   Uriarte, Natalia ^a   Pereira, Mariana ^a   Ferreira, Annabel ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias   (Uruguay)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

8 OH DPAT; Lactation; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Oestrous cycle; Ovarian steroids; Pregnancy; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; SEROTONIN 1A AGONIST; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; LACTATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; METESTRUS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OVARY CYCLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

8-HYDROXY-2-(DI-N-PROPYLAMINO)TETRALIN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 19544385437     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.02.017     Document Type: Article

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