Head shaking in the forced swim test: A robust but unexplored sex difference

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 152, Issue , 2017, Pages 90-96

  Kokras, Nikolaos ^a,b   Polissidis, Alexia ^a,c   Antoniou, Katerina ^d   Dalla, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Depression; FST; Head swinging; Head twitching; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MIRTAZAPINE; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE; MIANSERIN;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MECHANISM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; HEAD MOVEMENT; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; YOUNG ADULT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; CASTRATION; DRUG EFFECTS; HEAD; INBRED RAT STRAIN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING;

ADRENALECTOMY; AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CASTRATION; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HEAD; MALE; MIANSERIN; MOVEMENT; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84973563544     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2016.05.007     Document Type: Article

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