Exposure to repeated maternal aggression induces depressive-like behavior and increases startle in adult female rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 270-275

  Bourke, Chase H ^a   Neigh, Gretchen N ^a,b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgia State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Lactation; Social defeat; Stress

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; SUCROSE;

ACOUSTIC STARTLE TEST; ADULT ANIMAL; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATION; MATERNAL AGGRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL STRESS; STARTLE REFLEX; SUCROSE CONSUMPTION TEST;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MAZE LEARNING; PREGNANCY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; SWIMMING;

EID: 83655201519     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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