Cardiac dysfunction and hypothalamic activation during a social crowding stressor in prairie voles

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 44-50

  Grippo, Angela J ^a   Sgoifo, Andrea ^b   Mastorci, Francesca ^b   McNeal, Neal ^a   Trahanas, Diane M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arvicolinae; Autonomic nervous system; Brain; Fos; Heart rate variability; Hypothalamus; Immunohistochemistry; Paraventricular nucleus; Prairie vole; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Social behavior; Social isolation; Social stress

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STRESS; TELEMETRY; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CROWDING; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955278766     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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