Tickling-induced 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalization is individually stable and predicts behaviour in tests of anxiety and depression in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-71

  Mällo, Tanel ^a   Matrov, Denis ^a   Herm, Laura ^a   Kõiv, Kadri ^a   Eller, Marika ^a   Rinken, Ago ^a   Harro, Jaanus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

22 kHz calls; 50 kHz calls; Anxiety and depression tests; D2 receptor; Emotionality; Rat; Serotonin transporter; Ultrasonic vocalization

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPRESSION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CITALOPRAM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; FRONTAL LOBE; GUANOSINE 5'-O-(3-THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); ISOTOPES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34548649507     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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