Acute restraint stress produces behavioral despair in weanling rats in the forced swim test

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-222

  Bernal Morales, Blandina ^a   Contreras, Carlos M ^a,b   Cueto Escobedo, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Despair; Forced swimming; Stress; Weanling rat

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; RODENT; STRESS; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; TESTING METHOD; WEANING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HOPELESSNESS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PERINATAL PERIOD; RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 68549134922     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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