Susceptibility of a potential animal model for pathological anxiety to chronic mild stress

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 241-248

  Salomons, Amber R ^a,b   Kortleve, Tessa ^a   Reinders, Niels R ^a,b   Kirchhoff, Susanne ^a,b   Arndt, Saskia S ^a,b   Ohl, Frauke ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

129P3 J mice; Anxiety; Behaviour; c Fos expression; Chronic mild stress; Habituation; Modified hole board

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PROTEIN C FOS;

129P3 J MOUSE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROOMING; HABITUATION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODIFIED HOLE BOARD TEST; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77649236012     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.01.050     Document Type: Article

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