Defensive Aggregation (Huddling) in Rattus Norvegicus toward Predator Odor: Individual Differences, Social Buffering Effects and Neural Correlates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Bowen, Michael T ^a   Kevin, Richard C ^a   May, Matthew ^a   Staples, Lauren G ^b   Hunt, Glenn E ^c   McGregor, Iain S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; SUCROSE;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; HABENULA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OPEN FIELD TEST; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PHENOTYPE; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUTAMEN; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THREAT;

EID: 84880818243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068483     Document Type: Article

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