Effects of mild calorie restriction on anxiety and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to stress in the male rat

Physiological Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Kenny, Rachel ^a   Dinan, Tara ^a   Cai, Guohui ^a   Spencer, Sarah J ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Calorie restriction; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLACK-WHITE BOX TEST; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; EXPERIMENTAL LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY TEST; FEEDING; GROOMING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; RAT; STRESS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 85009070576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phy2.265     Document Type: Article

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