Early deprivation leads to altered behavioural, autonomic and endocrine responses to environmental challenge in adult Fischer rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2879-2893

  Rüedi Bettschen, Daniela ^a   Zhang, Weining ^a   Russig, Holger ^a   Ferger, Boris ^a   Weston, Anna ^a   Pedersen, Else Marie ^a   Feldon, Joram ^a   Pryce, Christopher R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aversive coping; Depression model; Early deprivation; Fischer rat; Non handling

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; SEROTONIN;

AFFECT; ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HELPLESSNESS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOOD; MOOD DISORDER; MOTIVATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; REWARD; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33751379572     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05158.x     Document Type: Article

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