Effects of maternal care on the development, emotionality, and reproductive functions in male and female rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 451-462

  Uriarte, Natalia ^a   Breigeiron, Márcia K ^a   Benetti, Fernando ^a   Rosa, Ximena F ^a   Lucion, Aldo B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Early experience; Licking behavior; Maternal behavior; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; LICKING; LITTER SIZE; LORDOSIS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; OVULATION; PROGENY; PUBERTY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 34547459142     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20241     Document Type: Article

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