Depression-Like Responses Induced by Daytime Light Deficiency in the Diurnal Grass Rat (Arvicanthis niloticus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Leach, Greg ^a   Adidharma, Widya ^a   Yan, Lily ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SEROTONIN;

EID: 84874249739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057115     Document Type: Article

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