Reproductive experience alters anxiety-like behavior in the female rat

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 70-76

  Byrnes, Elizabeth M ^a   Bridges, Robert S ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Constant estrus; Elevated plus maze; Middle aged; Open field; Parity; Proestrus

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OVARIECTOMY; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; WEANING;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GRAVIDITY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33646839268     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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