Maternal separation modulates short-term behavioral and physiological indices of the stress response

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 241-249

  Litvin, Yoav ^a,b   Tovote, Philip ^b   Pentkowski, Nathan S ^a,b   Zeyda, Thomas ^b   King, Lanikea B ^a   Vasconcellos, Amy J ^a   Dunlap, Christopher ^a   Spiess, Joachim ^b   Blanchard, D Caroline ^a,b   Blanchard, Robert J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Corticosterone; Corticotropin releasing factor; Defense; Freezing; GR; Hippocampus; Stress; Trauma

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MATERNAL STRESS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; CAT; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LONG EVANS RAT; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; SMELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CATS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953360240     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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