Neurophysiological correlates of stereotypic behaviour in a model carnivore species
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
Keywords: basal ganglia, Dorsal striatum, environmental enrichment, Index Medicus, mink, stereotypic behaviour, Ventral striatum
2019
Hair cortisol concentrations in New Zealand white rabbits subjected to surgery
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, cortisol, hair, hpa axis, rabbit, surgery
2018
A cage-based training, cognitive testing and enrichment system optimized for rhesus macaques in neuroscience research
Publication/Journal: Behavior Research Methods
Keywords: acquisition, animal, animal welfare, automated testing, baboons papio-papio, behavioral management, cognitive neuroscience, computerized test systems, cortex, environmental enrichment, experimental, housing, macaca-mulatta, mathematical, monkey, mt neurons, non-human primates, parietal, performance, psychology, receptive-field, representation
2017
The skin microbiome of cow-nose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) in an aquarium touch-tank exhibit
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: 16s rrna gene, cow-nose ray, elasmobranch, microbiome, touch-tank
2017
Associations among within-litter differences in early mothering received and later emotional behaviors, mothering, and cortical tryptophan hydroxylase-2 expression in female laboratory rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: anxiety, maternal behavior, neophobia, tryptophan hydroxylase-2, within-litter
2016
Effect of gender and halothane genotype on cognitive bias and its relationship with fear in pigs
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: *cognitive bias, fear, gender, halothane genotype, neurotransmitters
2016
Effects of chronic mild stress on behavioral and neurobiological parameters — Role of glucocorticoid
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: bdnf, chronic mild stress, depression, fkbp5, gap junction, gr
2016
Pinch-induced behavioural inhibition (clipthesia) as a restraint method for cats during veterinary examinations: preliminary results on cat susceptibility and welfare
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, cat, clipnosis, clipthesia, scruffing, veterinary examination
2016
Sex differences and estrous cycle effects on foreground contextual fear conditioning
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: amygdala, bdnf, conditioned fear, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, sex differences
2016
Social Support Modulates Stress-Related Gene Expression in Various Brain Regions of Piglets
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Keywords: hpa axis, limbic brain regions, mRNA expression, pig, social buffering, social deprivation
2016