Housing and rank status of male Long-Evans rats modify ethanol's effect on open-field behaviors

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 289-297

  Pohorecky, Larissa A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Ethanol ingestion; Locomotor behavior; Rank status; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EVALUATION; HOUSING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REARING; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33645100154     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-0257-3     Document Type: Article

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