A robust and reliable non-invasive test for stress responsivity in mice

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Zimprich, Annemarie ^a   Garrett, Lillian ^a   Deussing, Jan M ^a,b   Wotjak, Carsten T ^b   Fuchs, Helmut ^a   Gailus Durner, Valerie ^a   Angelis, Martin Hrabě de ^a,c,d   Wurst, Wolfgang ^a,b,c,e,f   Hölter, Sabine M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH DZD   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^f Technische Universität München Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute restraint stress; Behavioral read out; Corticosterone; Hyperlocomotion; Mouse mutants; Open field test

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MOUSE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 84898945726     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00125     Document Type: Article

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