Enduring effects of post-weaning rearing condition on depressive- and anxiety-like behaviors and motor activity in male rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 142, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-136

  Mosaferi, Belal ^a   Babri, Shirin ^b   Ebrahimi, Hadi ^b   Mohaddes, Gisou ^b  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Critical period; Depression; Environmental enrichment; Motor activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FORCED SWIM TEST; GROOMING; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; THREAT; WEANING; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WEANING;

EID: 84922619500     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.02.015     Document Type: Article

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