Effects of feather pecking phenotype (severe feather peckers, victims and non-peckers) on serotonergic and dopaminergic activity in four brain areas of laying hens (Gallus gallus domesticus)

Authors: Marjolein S. Kops, Elske N. de Haas, T. Bas Rodenburg, Esther D. Ellen, Gerdien A. H. Korte-Bouws, Berend Olivier, O. Güntürkün, J. Elizabeth Bolhuis, S. Mechiel Korte

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: feather pecking behavior, laying hens, monoamines, ocd, thalamopallial circuit

2013

Relations between peripheral and brain serotonin measures and behavioural responses in a novelty test in pigs

Authors: Winanda W. Ursinus, J. Elizabeth Bolhuis, Johan J. Zonderland, T. Bas Rodenburg, Adriana S. de Souza, Rudie E. Koopmanschap, Bas Kemp, Gerdien A. H. Korte-Bouws, S. Mechiel Korte, Cornelis G. van Reenen

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: behaviour, blood, brain, novelty, pigs, serotonin

2013

Stress revisited: A critical evaluation of the stress concept

Authors: J. M. Koolhaas, A. Bartolomucci, B. Buwalda, S. F. de Boer, G. Flügge, S. M. Korte, P. Meerlo, R. Murison, B. Olivier, P. Palanza, G. Richter-Levin, A. Sgoifo, T. Steimer, O. Stiedl, G. van Dijk, M. Wöhr, E. Fuchs

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: adaptation, adrenaline, allostasis, controllability, hpa axis, metabolism, noradrenaline, predictability, stress, stress response, sympathetic activity

2011

Effects of chronic stress: A comparison between tethered and loose sows

Authors: F. Josef van der Staay, Teun Schuurman, Marcel Hulst, Mari Smits, Jos Prickaerts, Gunter Kenis, S. Mechiel Korte

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: [beta]-globin, animal model, cortisol, depression, frontal cortex, gene expression, glucocorticoid receptor, hippocampus, igf-ii, mineralocorticoid receptor

2010

Feather damaging behaviour in parrots: A review with consideration of comparative aspects

Authors: Yvonne R. A. van Zeeland, Berry M. Spruit, T. Bas Rodenburg, Bernd Riedstra, Yvonne M. van Hierden, Bart Buitenhuis, S. Mechiel Korte, Johannes T. Lumeij

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: abnormal repetitive behaviour, behavioural disorder, feather pecking, feather picking, feather plucking, grooming, hair pulling, poultry, psittacines, trichotillomania

2009

A new animal welfare concept based on allostasis

Authors: S. Mechiel Korte, Berend Olivier, Jaap M. Koolhaas

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: allostasis, allostatic load, allostatic state, animal welfare, disease, homeostasis, stress

2007

The Darwinian concept of stress: benefits of allostasis and costs of allostatic load and the trade-offs in health and disease

Authors: S. Mechiel Korte, Jaap M. Koolhaas, John C. Wingfield, Bruce S. McEwen

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: allostasis, allostatic load, allostatic state, amygdala, atypical depression, birds, brain, chronic fatigue, coping, darwin, doves, evolution, evolutionary stable strategy, fight–flight, freeze–hide, hawks, hippocampus, human, locus coeruleus, melancholic depression, natural selection, prefrontal cortex, psychosis, rat, stress

2005

Corticosteroids in relation to fear, anxiety and psychopathology.

Authors: S.M. Korte

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: anxiety, consolidation, contextual fear conditioning, corticosterioids, elevated plus maze t, fear, fear extinction, fear potentiation, freezing, glucocorticoid receptor, hippocampus, mineralocorticoid receptor, passive avoidance test, porsolt swim test

2001

Effects of environmental enrichment on behavioral responses to novelty, learning, and memory, and the circadian rhythm in cortisol in growing pigs

Authors: Ingrid C. de Jong, Ina T. Prelle, Johan A. van de Burgwal, Elbert Lambooij, S. Mechiel Korte, Harry J. Blokhuis, Jaap M. Koolhaas

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: circadian rhythm, cortisol, environmental enrichment, memory, novelty, pigs

2000

Effects of straw bedding on physiological responses to stressors and behavior in growing pigs

Authors: Ingrid C. de Jong, E. Dinand Ekkel, Johan A. van de Burgwal, Elbert Lambooij, S. Mechiel Korte, Marko A. W. Ruis, Jaap M. Koolhaas, Harry J. Blokhuis

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: body temperature, cortisol, environmental enrichment, heart rate, pigs' behavior, pigs' behaviour

1998

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