High aggression in rats is associated with elevated stress, anxiety-like behavior, and altered catecholamine content in the brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 584, Issue , 2015, Pages 308-313

  Patki, Gaurav ^a   Atrooz, Fatin ^a   Alkadhi, Isam ^a   Solanki, Naimesh ^a   Salim, Samina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Dopamine; Norepinephrine; Stress and anxiety

Indexed keywords

8 ISOPROSTANE; ADRENALIN; CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CATECHOLAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; OPEN FIELD TEST; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; CATECHOLAMINES; CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE; EPINEPHRINE; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84918503855     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.10.051     Document Type: Article

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