Environmental enrichment preceding early adulthood methylphenidate treatment leads to long term increase of corticosterone and testosterone in the rat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Avital, Avi ^a,b   Dolev, Talya ^a   Aga Mizrachi, Shlomit ^a   Zubedat, Salman ^a  

^a Yezreel Valley College   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; METHYLPHENIDATE; SUCROSE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; RAT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; AGING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENT; FREEZING; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; REWARD; STIMULATION; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT; FREEZING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METHYLPHENIDATE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REWARD; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960311882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022059     Document Type: Article

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