Post-weaning environmental enrichment alters affective responses and interacts with behavioral testing to alter nNOS immunoreactivity

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-32

  Workman, Joanna L ^a   Fonken, Laura K ^a   Gusfa, James ^a   Kassouf, Kathleen M ^a   Nelson, Randy J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anxiety; Depression; Enrichment; Isolation; NOS 1; Social housing; Wheel running

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULTHOOD; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WEANING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ENZYME INDUCTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WEANING;

MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 80051595502     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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