Endocrine and immunological correlates of behaviorally identified swim stress resilient and vulnerable rats

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 488-497

  Levay, Elizabeth A ^a   Govic, Antonina ^a   Hazi, Agnes ^a   Flannery, Graham ^a   Christianson, John ^b   Drugan, Robert C ^b   Kent, Stephen ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Corticosterone; Lymphocyte proliferation; Natural killer cell activity; Psychoneuroimmunology

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPLEEN; STRESS; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCAPE REACTION; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPLEEN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 33746804985     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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