High-frequency ultrasonic vocalizations in rats in response to tickling: The effects of restraint stress

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-227

  Popik, Piotr ^a,b   Potasiewicz, Agnieszka ^a   Pluta, Helena ^a   Zieniewicz, Anna ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Affect; Biomarker; Laughter; Stress; Tickling; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ADULT ANIMAL; AFFECT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN STIMULATION; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84864042521     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.06.028     Document Type: Article

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