Environmental enrichment and cafeteria diet attenuate the response to chronic variable stress in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 139, Issue , 2015, Pages 41-49

  Zeeni, N ^a   Bassil, M ^a   Fromentin, G ^b,c   Chaumontet, C ^b,c   Darcel, N ^b,c   Tome, D ^b,c   Daher, C F ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

ACTH; Blood lipids; Body adiposity; Corticosterone; Dietary intake; Palatable diet

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOSE; LIPID; STRESS HORMONE; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BISCUIT; BODY COMPOSITION; CACAO; CALORIC INTAKE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FOOD; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PEANUT; PEANUT BUTTER; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; DIET; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOASSAY; LIPID DIET; MENTAL STRESS; NURSING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; DIET; DIET, HIGH-FAT; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENERGY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOASSAY; INSULIN; LIPIDS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84911092065     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.11.003     Document Type: Article

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