Emotional, endocrine and brain anandamide response to social challenge in infant male rats

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2152-2162

  Marco, Eva M ^a   Scattoni, Maria Luisa ^a   Rapino, Cinzia ^b   Ceci, Chiara ^a   Chaves, Nicole ^a   Macrì, Simone ^a   Maccarrone, Mauro ^c,d   Laviola, Giovanni ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anandamide; Corticosterone; Emotion; Endocannabinoid system; Hippocampus; Neonate; Stress; Ultrasound vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ANANDAMIDE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOCANNABINOID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHALLENGE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS;

ANANDAMIDE; CORTICOSTERONE; EMOTION; ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEONATE; STRESS; ULTRASOUND VOCALIZATIONS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; FEMALE; HORMONES; MALE; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84883886237     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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