Early social enrichment affects responsiveness to different social cues in female mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 304-309

  Gracceva, Giulia ^a   Venerosi, Aldina ^a   Santucci, Daniela ^a   Calamandrei, Gemma ^a   Ricceri, Laura ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Communal nesting; Early experiences; Females mice; Long term effects; Maternal induction; Social enrichment; Social investigation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LICKING; MALE; MOUSE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REARING; SNIFFING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CUES; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 57549116519     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.09.023     Document Type: Article

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