Mineralocorticoid receptor blockade during a rat's first violent encounter inhibits its subsequent propensity for violence

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 505-514

  Kruk, Menno R ^a   Haller, Jozsef ^b   Meelis, Wout ^a   de Kloet, E Ronald ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Facilitation hypothalamic aggression; First offender; Rat; Spironolactone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SPIRONOLACTONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FACILITATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84887551917     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033553     Document Type: Article

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