Circadian phase and sex effects on depressive/anxiety-like behaviors and HPA axis responses to acute stress

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 276-285

  Verma, Pamela ^a   Hellemans, Kim G C ^a   Choi, Fiona Y ^a   Yu, Wayne ^a   Weinberg, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Circadian phase; Corticosterone; Depression; Diurnal variation; Elevated plus maze; HPA axis; Open field; Porsolt forced swim; Rat; Sucrose contrast

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; SUCROSE;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 74349094156     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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