Social aversive stimuli presented to the mother produce the precocious expression of fear in rat pups

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1187-1198

  Zuluaga, María J ^a   Agrati, Daniella ^a   Uriarte, Natalia ^b   Ferreira, Annabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b Facultad de Ciencias   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Distress behavior; Fear; Intruder; Maternal and aggressive behaviors; Mother pup interaction; Pups; Rattus norvergicus; Ultrasonic vocalization

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOCALIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84905273726     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21199     Document Type: Article

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