Is hyper-aggressiveness associated with physiological hypoarousal? A comparative study on mouse lines selected for high and low aggressiveness

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 591-598

  Caramaschi, Doretta ^a   de Boer, S F ^a   Koolhaas, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggression; Hypoarousal; Mice; Selection lines; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMETRY;

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CORTICOSTERONE; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 55049130073     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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