Activating effects of chronic variable stress in rats with different exploratory activity: Association with dopamine D1 receptor function in nucleus accumbens

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 110-122

  Matrov, Denis ^a   Vonk, Argo ^a   Herm, Laura ^a   Rinken, Ago ^a   Harro, Jaanus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Anhedonia; Chronic variable stress; Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry; Dopamine D1 receptor; Exploration; Individual differences

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; SUCROSE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CENTRAL GRAY MATTER; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYCLIC AMP; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCES; GUANOSINE 5'-O-(3-THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUCROSE; SULFUR ISOTOPES; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959647290     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: 14230224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000325224     Document Type: Article

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