Social defeat stress produces prolonged alterations in acoustic startle and body weight gain in male Long Evans rats

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 106-111

  Pulliam, John V K ^a   Dawaghreh, Ahmad M ^a   Alema Mensah, Ernest ^a   Plotsky, Paul M ^b  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle; Emotional stress; Social defeat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DEFEAT; STARTLE REFLEX; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; MALE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 73749085300     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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