Short- and long-term consequences of stressor controllability in adolescent rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 278-284

  Kubala, Kenneth H ^a   Christianson, John P ^a   Kaufman, Richard D ^a   Watkins, Linda R ^a   Maier, Steven F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Learned helplessness; Serotonin; Social interaction; Stress; Stressor controllability

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; SEROTONIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXCITOTOXICITY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LIFESPAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; ESCAPE REACTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; MALE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864075573     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.06.027     Document Type: Article

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