The newborn rat's stress system readily habituates to repeated and prolonged maternal separation, while continuing to respond to stressors in context dependent fashion

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 165-176

  Daskalakis, Nikolaos P ^a   Claessens, Sanne E F ^a   Laboyrie, Jasper J L ^a   Enthoven, Leo ^a   Oitzl, Melly S ^a   Champagne, Danielle L ^a,b   de Kloet, E Ronald ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ACTH; Corticosterone; Environment; Genotype; Maternal care; Maternal separation; Melanocortin receptor 2; Novelty; SHRP; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; MELANOCORTIN 2 RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HABITUATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; WISTAR RAT;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 2; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 80955180117     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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