Contact with infants modulates anxiety-generated c-fos activity in the brains of postpartum rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 193-200

  Smith, Carl D ^a   Lonstein, Joseph S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Elevated plus maze; Immediate early gene; Lactation; Postpartum; Stress; Suckling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHILD CARE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HABENULA; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; LACTATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOOD; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRAMAMMILLARY NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HABENULA; HYPOTHALAMUS; LACTATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 42249099440     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.02.030     Document Type: Article

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