Effect of chronic variable stress on corticosterone levels and hippocampal extracellular 5-HT in rats with persistent differences in positive affectivity

Acta Neuropsychiatrica

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 208-214

  Raudkivi, Karita ^a   Mällo, Tanel ^a   Harro, Jaanus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

chronic variable stress; depression; positive affect; serotonin; ultrasonic vocalization

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; CORTICOSTERONE; SEROTONIN;

AFFECT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84864439721     PISSN: 09242708     EISSN: 16015215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5215.2011.00619.x     Document Type: Article

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