Shaping brain development: Mouse communal nesting blunts adult neuroendocrine and behavioral response to social stress and modifies chronic antidepressant treatment outcome

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 743-751

  Branchi, Igor ^a   D'Andrea, Ivana ^a   Cirulli, Francesca ^a   Lipp, Hans Peter ^b   Alleva, Enrico ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anhedonia; Chronic; Corticosterone; Early experiences; Fluoxetine; Forced swim test

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CORTICOSTERONE; FLUOXETINE; SUCROSE;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOUSE; NESTING; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 77952550187     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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