Seasonal variation of the impact of a stressful procedure on open field behaviour and blood corticosterone in laboratory mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 342-348

  Meyer, L ^a,b   Caston, J ^a   Mensah Nyagan, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Behavioural inhibition; Circannual rhythms; Corticosterone; Investigatory behaviour; Mouse; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRESS; WALKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CORTICOSTERONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEASONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 30744449735     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.09.023     Document Type: Article

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