Sex and age differences in the impact of the forced swimming test on the levels of steroid hormones

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 900-905

  Martínez Mota, Lucía ^a   Ulloa, Rosa Elena ^b   Herrera Pérez, Jaime ^a,d   Chavira, Roberto ^c   Fernández Guasti, Alonso ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^b Hospital Psiquiatrico Infantil Dr Juan N Navarro   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Depression; Estrogens; Forced swimming test; Neurodevelopment; Prepubertal rats; Steroid hormone levels

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT ANIMAL; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLIMBING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STEROIDS; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053052327     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.05.027     Document Type: Article

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