Physiological and hormonal responses to novelty exposure in rats are mainly related to ongoing behavioral activity

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 412-420

  Beerling, W ^a,b   Koolhaas, J M ^b   Ahnaou, A ^a   Bouwknecht, J A ^a   de Boer, S F ^b   Meerlo, P ^b   Drinkenburg, W H I M ^a  

^a JANSSEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral activity; Body temperature; Heart rate; Novelty stress; Plasma corticosterone; Rat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMERA; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EXPOSURE; HEART RATE; HORMONE RESPONSE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; STRESS; TELEMETRY; WAKEFULNESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEART RATE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953659709     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.03.014     Document Type: Article

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