An unexpected reduction in sucrose concentration activates the HPA axis on successive post shift days without attenuation by discriminative contextual stimuli

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 96, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 651-661

  Pecoraro, Norman ^a   de Jong, Hanna ^a   Dallman, Mary F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectancy; HPA axis; Stress; Successive negative contrast

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROBABILITY LEARNING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 60249099422     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.12.018     Document Type: Article

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