Accessory and main olfactory systems influences on predator odor-induced behavioral and endocrine stress responses in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-77

  Masini, Cher V ^a   Garcia, Robert J ^a   Sasse, Sarah K ^a   Nyhuis, Tara J ^a   Day, Heidi E W ^a   Campeau, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Corticosterone; Olfaction; Predator; Vomeronasal organ; Zinc sulfate

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; ZINC SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FERRET; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMELLING; STRAWBERRY; STRESS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CORTICOSTERONE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCAPE REACTION; FERRETS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMELL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 70649085907     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.09.038     Document Type: Article

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