Corticosterone response in a resident-intruder-paradigm depends on social state and coping style in adolescent male Balb-C mice

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 585-590

  Pletzer, Belinda ^a   Klimesch, Wolfgang ^a   Oberascher Holzinger, Karin ^a   Kerschbaum, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coping style; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Resident intruder paradigm; Social state; Social stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CAGE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

EID: 38049024674     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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