Sex differences in social stress-induced pressor and behavioral responses in normotensive and prehypertensive rats

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 346-354

  Bernatova, Iveta ^a   Puzserova, Angelika ^a   Dubovicky, Michal ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; DEFECATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GROOMING; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREHYPERTENSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROWDING; FEMALE; GROOMING; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 78650639884     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4149/gpb_2010_04_346     Document Type: Article

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