Early emergence of adult-like fear renewal in the developing rat after chronic corticosterone treatment of the dam or the pups

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 594-602

  Callaghan, Bridget L ^a   Richardson, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Development; Extinction; Renewal; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PHASE TRANSITION; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; RAT; REARING; REINFORCEMENT; ANIMAL; CATALEPSY; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEMALE; INDWELLING CATHETER; LACTATION; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; LACTATION; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84925612082     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/bne0000009     Document Type: Article

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