Demanding pups improve maternal behavioral impairments in sensitized and haloperidol-treated lactating female rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 139-148

  Pereira, Mariana ^a   Ferreira, Annabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Demanding pups; Dopamine; Haloperidol; Maternal behavior; Maternal motivation; Sensitization procedure

Indexed keywords

HALOPERIDOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LACTATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HALOPERIDOL; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33750605577     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.08.013     Document Type: Article

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