The calm mouse: An animal model of stress reduction

Molecular Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 606-617

  Gurfein, Blake T ^a,b   Stamm, Andrew W ^b   Bacchetti, Peter ^a   Dallman, Mary F ^b   Nadkarni, Nachiket A ^c   Milush, Jeffrey M ^b   Touma, Chadi ^d   Palme, Rupert ^e   di Borgo, Charles Pozzo ^c   Fromentin, Gilles ^c   Lown Hecht, Rachel ^b   Konsman, Jan Pieter ^f   Acree, Michael ^a   Premenko Lanie, Mary ^b   Darcel, Nicolas ^c   Hecht, Frederick M ^a   Nixon, Douglas F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; POLYCARBONATE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CAGE; CALM MOUSE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NESTING; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; SPLEEN SIZE; STRESS; STRESS MANAGEMENT; STRESS REDUCTION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENERGY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, ANIMAL; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84862189952     PISSN: 10761551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2119/molmed.2012.00053     Document Type: Article

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