Sex differences in stress-induced social withdrawal: Independence from adult gonadal hormones and inhibition of female phenotype by corncob bedding

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 543-550

  Trainor, Brian C ^a,b   Takahashi, Elizabeth Y ^a   Campi, Katharine L ^a   Florez, Stefani A ^a,c   Greenberg, Gian D ^a   Laman Maharg, Abigail ^a   Laredo, Sarah A ^a   Orr, Veronica N ^a   Silva, Andrea L ^a   Steinman, Michael Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FUNDACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA KONRAD LORENZ   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anxiety like behavior; Phytoestrogens; Sex differences; Social behavior; Social defeat; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BED; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNCOB BEDDING; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE INHIBITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; SENSITIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DEFEAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CASTRATION; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GONADAL HORMONES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PEROMYSCUS; PHENOTYPE; PHYTOESTROGENS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84875050800     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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