Enhanced habituation and decreased anxiety by environmental enrichment and possible attenuation of these effects by chronic α-tocopherol (vitamin E) in aging male and female rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 534-542

  Hughes, Robert N ^a   Collins, Michelle A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aged rats; Anxiety; Body weight; Enrichment; Habituation; Sex; Tocopherol; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; GROOMING; HABITUATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DRINKING; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROOMING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 74249084249     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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