The acute glucocorticoid stress response does not differentiate between rewarding and aversive social stimuli in rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 218-226

  Buwalda, Bauke ^a   Scholte, Jan ^a   de Boer, Sietse F ^a   Coppens, Caroline M ^a   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Corticosterone; Heart rate; Locomotor activity; Mating; Sex; Social defeat; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; PROTEIN C FOS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRESS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CORTICOSTERONE; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART RATE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856975124     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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