Developmental underpinnings of differences in rodent novelty-seeking and emotional reactivity

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 994-1005

  Clinton, Sarah M ^a   Stead, John D H ^c   Miller, Sue ^b   Watson, Stanley J ^b   Akil, Huda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Bred High Responder (bHR); Bred Low Responder (bLR); Hippocampus; Microarray

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; EMOTIONALITY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMPULSIVENESS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TEMPERAMENT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; DENTATE GYRUS; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROGENESIS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REWARD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84860389266     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07811.x     Document Type: Article

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