Effects of early weaning on anxiety and autonomic responses to stress in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-93

  Ito, Akie ^a   Kikusui, Takefumi ^a   Takeuchi, Yukari ^a   Mori, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Autonomic responses; Early weaning; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TACHYCARDIA; WEANING;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY TEMPERATURE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEANING;

EID: 33646540405     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.03.023     Document Type: Article

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