Behavioral effects of repeated handling differ in rats reared in social isolation and environmental enrichment

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 536, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-51

  Pritchard, L M ^a   Van Kempen, T A ^a,b   Zimmerberg, B ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; D Amphetamine; EE; Environmental enrichment; EPM; Handling; ISO; Isolation

Indexed keywords

DEXAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STEREOTYPY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84873744749     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.12.048     Document Type: Article

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