Different locomotor activities and monoamine levels in the brains of Djungarian hamsters (D. sungorus) and Roborovskii hamsters (D. roborovskii)

Experimental Animals

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 447-452

  Kabuki, Yusuke ^a   Yamane, Haruka ^a   Hamasu, Kousuke ^a   Furuse, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Djungarian hamster; Locomotor activity; Monoamine; Open field; Roborovskii hamster

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MONOAMINE; DOPAMINE; SEROTONIN; BIOGENIC AMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HAMSTER; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROTEIN METABOLISM; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN LEVEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHODOPUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS ROBOROVSKII; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

ANIMALS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CRICETINAE; DOPAMINE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHODOPUS; SEROTONIN;

EID: 56149116544     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.57.447     Document Type: Article

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