Neonatal hyperleptinaemia programmes anxiety-like and novelty seeking behaviours but not memory/learning in adult rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 272-279

  Fraga Marques, Mabel C ^a,b   Moura, Egberto G ^b   Claudio Neto, Sylvio ^b   Trevenzoli, Isis H ^b   Toste, Fabiane P ^b   Passos, Magna C F ^c   Lisboa, Patrícia C ^b   Manhães, Alex C ^a  

^a Inst Biol Roberto Alcantara Gomes   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes   (Brazil)

^c Centro Biomedico   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Corticosterone; Leptin; Memory; Novelty seeking; Programming

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERLEPTINEMIA; LACTATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATECHOLAMINES; CORTICOSTERONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LEPTIN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 59149083362     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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