Psychosocial stress and volatile compounds in preputial glands of rats

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 219-222

  Pohorecky, Larissa A ^a   Ma, Weidong ^b   Blakley, Gregory G ^a   Soini, H A ^b   Novotny, Milos V ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Coagulating glands; Marking behavior; Pheromones; Rank status; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

2 ETHYLFURAN; 2,4 HEPTADIENAL; 3 ETHYL 2 HEPTANONE; BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTER; METHYL HEXANOATE; NONANAL; OCTENAL; PHEROMONE; RT 2518; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL CUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PREPUTIAL GLAND; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 57649143114     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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