Maternal separation in rats leads to anxiety-like behavior and a blunted ACTH response and altered neurotransmitter levels in response to a subsequent stressor

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 3-14

  Daniels, W M U ^a   Pietersen, C Y ^a   Carstens, M E ^a   Stein, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anxious; Behavior; Elevated plus maze; HPA axis; Maternal separation; Noradrenaline; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; 4 HYDROXY 3 METHOXYPHENYLETHYLENE GLYCOL; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; ANIMAL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN LEVEL; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE LEARNING; METHOXYHYDROXYPHENYLGLYCOL; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; SEROTONIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 3242699065     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MEBR.0000027412.19664.b3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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