Effects of chronic and acute stress on rat behaviour in the forced-swim test

Stress

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 533-540

  Suvrathan, Aparna ^a   Tomar, Anupratap ^a   Chattarji, Sumantra ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Depression; forced swim test; mood disorder; plasticity; rat model; stress

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 77958075309     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2010.489978     Document Type: Article

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