Individual differences in the immobility behavior in juvenile and adult rats are associated with monoaminergic neurotransmission and with the expression of corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 in the nucleus accumbens

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 252, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-87

  Sequeira Cordero, Andrey ^a   Mora Gallegos, Andrea ^a   Cuenca Berger, Patricia ^a   Fornaguera Trías, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Age; CRFR1; Forced swimming test; Individual difference; Monoamine

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; DOPAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIPPOCAMPUS; JUVENILE; MALE; MONOAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGE; CRFR1; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE; MONOAMINE;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROOMING; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879331364     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.05.046     Document Type: Article

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