Pre-natal stress amplifies the immediate behavioural responses to acute pain in piglets

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 452-454

  Rutherford, Kenneth M D ^a   Robson, Sheena K ^a   Donald, Ramona D ^a   Jarvis, Susan ^a   Sandercock, Dale A ^b   Scott, E Marian ^b   Nolan, Andrea M ^b   Lawrence, Alistair B ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pain; Piglet; Pre natal stress; Predictive adaptive response

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; INJURY; PERCEPTION; PIG; PREGNANCY; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC PIG; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PIGLET; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; SOCIAL STRESS; WEIGHT GAIN;

SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 67749127483     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0175     Document Type: Article

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