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
Humane euthanasia of neonates I: validation of the effectiveness of the Zephyr EXL non-penetrating captive-bolt euthanasia system on neonate piglets up to 10.9 kg live-weight
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, captive bolt, euthanasia, mechanical stunning, piglet, visual evoked potentials
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
Pain and Laboratory Animals: Publication Practices for Better Data Reproducibility and Better Animal Welfare
Publication/Journal: Plos One
Keywords: activity, critical-care, experimental surgical-procedures, killer-cell, liver-transplantation, metastatic colonization, multidisciplinary sciences, neuropathic pain, posterior parietal, reporting guidelines, spinal-cord-injury, systematic reviews
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
Evidence for a link between tail biting and central monoamine metabolism in pigs (Sus scrofa domestica)
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: dopamine, neurotransmission, pig, serotonin, tail-biting
2015
Housing conditions influence cortical and behavioural reactions of sheep in response to videos showing social interactions of different valence
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
Keywords: attentiveness, emotion, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fnirs), mood, sheep, social interaction
2015