Effects of chronic social stress in adolescence on anxiety and neuroendocrine response to mild stress in male and female rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 228-238

  McCormick, C M ^a   Smith, C ^a   Mathews, I Z ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anxiety; Corticosterone; Development; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STRESS;

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 38049094291     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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