Behavioral profiles and stress-induced corticosteroid secretion in male Wistar rats subjected to short and prolonged periods of maternal separation

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 736-747

  Roman, Erika ^a   Gustafsson, Lisa ^a   Berg, Marita ^a   Nylander, Ingrid ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Concentric Square Field; Corticosterone; Elevated Plus maze; Emotional reactivity; Handling; Maternal deprivation; Open Field; Principal Component Analysis; Restraint stress; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; REARING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK-TAKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750946469     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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