Postpartum behavioral profiles in Wistar rats following maternal separation - Altered exploration and risk-assessment behavior in MS15 dams

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2010, Pages

  Daoura, Loudin ^a   Hjalmarsson, My ^a   Oreland, Sadia ^a   Nylander, Ingrid ^a   Roman, Erika ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal facility rearing; Handling; Maternal deprivation; Multivariate concentric square field and trade; test; Non handling; Principal component analysis; Stress; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555170737     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00037     Document Type: Article

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