The effects of adrenalectomy and corticosterone replacement on maternal behavior in the postpartum rat

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 411-419

  Rees, Stephanie L ^a   Panesar, Sonia ^a   Steiner, Meir ^b   Fleming, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adrenalectomy; Corticosterone; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Maternal behavior; Postpartum; Rat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DRINKING WATER; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; LICKING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RAT; TIME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 4744373959     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2004.03.010     Document Type: Article

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