Maintenance of dominance status is necessary for resistance to social defeat stress in Syrian hamsters

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 270, Issue , 2014, Pages 277-286

  Morrison, Kathleen E ^a   Bader, Lauren R ^b   Clinard, Catherine T ^b   Gerhard, Danielle M ^b   Gross, Sonya E ^b   Cooper, Matthew A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned defeat; Dominance; Medial amygdala; Resilience; Stress; Ventral medial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DEFEAT STRESS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRESS; SYRIAN HAMSTER; VENTRAL MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONDITIONING; HAMSTER; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; MENTAL STRESS; MESOCRICETUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CENTRAL AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CRICETINAE; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84901979442     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.05.041     Document Type: Article

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