Adolescent Male Rats Exposed to Social Defeat Exhibit Altered Anxiety Behavior and Limbic Monoamines as Adults

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 564-576

  Watt, Michael J ^a   Burke, Andrew R ^a   Renner, Kenneth J ^a,b   Forster, Gina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent stress; anxiety; monoamine; social defeat

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; MONOAMINE DERIVATIVE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STRESS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; DOPAMINE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 66349115429     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015752     Document Type: Article

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