Prolonged treatment with vitamins C and e separately and together decreases anxiety-related open-field behavior and acoustic startle in hooded rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 494-499

  Hughes, Robert N ^a   Lowther, Courtney L ^a   Van Nobelen, Marion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle; Anxiety; Open field; Rats; Vitamin C; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ASCORBIC ACID; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; STARTLE REACTION; VITAMIN E;

RATTUS;

EID: 78249284636     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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