Environmental enrichment effects on the neurobehavioral profile of selective outbred trait anxiety rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 252, Issue , 2013, Pages 49-57

  Ravenelle, Rebecca ^a   Byrnes, Elizabeth M ^b   Byrnes, John J ^b   McInnis, Christine ^c   Park, Jin Ho ^a   Donaldson, S Tiffany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Anxiety; BDNF; Dopamine receptor; Elevated plus maze

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADDICTION; ANXIETY; BDNF; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTOR, TRKB; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84879406877     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.05.041     Document Type: Article

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