Effects of chlordiazepoxide on predator odor-induced reductions of playfulness in juvenile rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 254-262

  Siviy, Stephen M ^a   Steets, Courtney L ^a   DeBrouse, Lauren M ^a  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anxiety; Anxiolytic; Benzodiazepine; Childhood; Development; Fear

Indexed keywords

CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PLAY; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATS; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; MALE; ODORS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SMELL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70350324333     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.09.026     Document Type: Article

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