Male Wistar rats are more susceptible to lasting social anxiety than Wild-type Groningen rats following social defeat stress during adolescence

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 76-80

  Vidal, Jose ^a   Buwalda, Bauke ^a   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bullying; Context specificity; Social anxiety; Social approach avoidance test; Social defeat; Social stress; Wild type Groningen rat; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; PHENOTYPE; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VULNERABILITY;

ADOLESCENCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL STRESS; STIMULUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 80052919908     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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