Early behavioural enrichment in the form of handling renders mouse pups unresponsive to anxiolytic drugs and increases NGF levels in the hippocampus

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 208-215

  Cirulli, Francesca ^a   Capone, Francesca ^a   Bonsignore, Luca T ^a   Aloe, Luigi ^b   Alleva, Enrico ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animal models; Anxiety; Benzodiazepines; Epigenetic factors; Maternal behaviour; Mice; Neurotrophins; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; DRUG VEHICLE; NEUROTROPHIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LICKING; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; VOCALIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; AROUSAL; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; DRUG TOLERANCE; FEMALE; GABA MODULATORS; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33847407834     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.12.018     Document Type: Article

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