Social Agonistic Distress in Male and Female Mice: Changes of Behavior and Brain Monoamine Functioning in Relation to Acute and Chronic Challenges

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Jacobson Pick, Shlomit ^a   Audet, Marie Claude ^a   McQuaid, Robyn Jane ^a   Kalvapalle, Rahul ^a   Anisman, Hymie ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MONOAMINE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN METABOLISM; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MONOAMINE RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEROTONIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MUS;

EID: 84875649495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060133     Document Type: Article

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