Differential impact of juvenile stress and corticosterone in juvenility and in adulthood, in male and female rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 268-276

  Jacobson Pick, Shlomit ^a   Richter Levin, Gal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Affective disorder; Animal model; Anxiety; Early onset

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MAZE TEST; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955282553     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.05.036     Document Type: Article

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