Social encounter with a novel partner in adolescent rats: Activation of the central endocannabinoid system

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 140-145

  Rapino, Cinzia ^b   Caprioli, Antonio ^c   Borsini, Franco ^c   Maccarrone, Mauro ^b,d   Laviola, Giovanni ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^c Sigma Tau SpA   (Italy)

^d EUROPEAN BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anandamide; Endocannabinoids; Metabolism; Rat; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

2 ARACHIDONOYLGLYCEROL; ANANDAMIDE; ENDOCANNABINOID; FATTY ACID AMIDASE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTIONALITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DARK ADAPTATION; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 79951957509     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.01.044     Document Type: Article

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