Genetic influences on behavioral and neuroendocrine responses to predator-odor stress in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 409, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 89-94

  Vendruscolo, Leandro Franco ^a,b   Vendruscolo, Janaína Carrinho Muniz ^a   Terenina Rigaldie, Elena ^a   Raba, Frantz ^a   Ramos, André ^b   Takahashi, Reinaldo Naoto ^b   Mormède, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Behavior genetics; Defensive system; Genomic regions; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis; Marker assisted selection; Quantitative trait locus (QTL)

Indexed keywords

2,4,5 TRIMETHYLTHIAZOLINE; CORTICOSTERONE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXPOSURE; FECES; FEMALE; FOX; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; FECES; FEMALE; FOXES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NOCICEPTORS; ODORS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED SHR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THIAZOLES;

EID: 33750359194     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.07.026     Document Type: Article

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