The physiology of social conflict in rats: What is particularly stressful?

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 353-359

  Haller, József ^a   Kiem, Do Thanh ^a   Makara, Gábor B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOSTERONE; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 9244244265     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.2.353     Document Type: Article

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