Multiple exposures to familiar conspecific withdrawal is a novel robust stress paradigm in ewes

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 203-208

  Guesdon, Vanessa ^a,b,c   Ligout, Séverine ^a,b,c   Delagrange, Philippe ^d   Spedding, Michael ^d   Lévy, Frédéric ^a,b,c   Laine, Anne Lyse ^a,b,c   Malpaux, Benoît ^a,b,c   Chaillou, Elodie ^a,b,c  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c IFCE   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

Anticipatory fear reaction; Behavior; Cortisol; Habituation; Repeated stress; Sheep; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EWE; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; OVARIECTOMY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80052845227     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.08.011     Document Type: Article

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