Introducing Clicker Training as a Cognitive Enrichment for Laboratory Mice
Publication/Journal: Journal of Visualized Experiments
Keywords: 3rs, anxiety, balb/c, behavior, clicker training, enrichment, environmental enrichment, issue 121, mouse, multidisciplinary sciences, pigs, positive reinforcement training, rats, refinement, stress response, welfare, well-being
2017
Prosocial effects of prolactin in male rats: Social recognition, social approach and social learning
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: bromocriptine, oxytocin, prolactin, rats, social behavior
2017
Stress coping style does not determine social status, but influences the consequences of social subordination stress
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: social stress, stress coping style, visual burrow system
2017
Adolescent voluntary exercise attenuated hippocampal innate immunity responses and depressive-like behaviors following maternal separation stress in male rats
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: depressive-like behaviors, hippocampus, mandatory exercise, maternal separation, toll-like receptors, voluntary exercise
2016
Antagonism of V1b receptors promotes maternal motivation to retrieve pups in the MPOA and impairs pup-directed behavior during maternal defense in the mpBNST of lactating rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: arginine-vasopressin, maternal aggression, maternal care, maternal defense test, pup retrieval test, ssr149415, v1a receptor, v1b receptor
2016
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
Chronic corticosterone treatment enhances extinction-induced depression in aged rats
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: acth, chronic stress, corticosterone, depression model, despair, extinction, goal tracking
2016
Decreased emotional reactivity of rats exposed to repeated phase shifts of light–dark cycle
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: behaviour, cardiovascular system, chronodisruption, emotionality, shift-work
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
The effects of enrichment novelty versus complexity in cages of group-housed rats (Rattus norvegicus)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: complexity, enrichment, laboratory rats, novelty, welfare
2016