Behavioral characterization of the alarm reaction and anxiolytic-like effect of acute treatment with fluoxetine in piauçu fish

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 784-790

  Barbosa, Augusto ^a   Alves, Fabiana Luca ^a   Fim Pereira, Aparecida de Sousa ^a   Ide, Liliam Midori ^b   Hoffmann, Anette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alarm reaction; Anxiety related states; Club cells; Fluoxetine; Leporinus macrocephalus; Ventilatory response

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS CELL; FISH SCHOOL; FREEZING; HISTOLOGY; IMMOBILIZATION; LEPORINUS MACROCEPHALUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; STRESS; SWIMMING; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EPIDERMIS; ESCAPE REACTION; FISHES; FLUOXETINE; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT; PHEROMONES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 81055131791     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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