| Literature DB >> 1584459 |
A Fernández-Teruel1, R M Escorihuela, J F Núñez, M Gomà, P Driscoll, A Tobeña.
Abstract
The present study shows that postnatal handling (H: consisting of removing the pups from the nest twice daily and placing them individually in plastic cages lined with paper towel for a period of 10 min, between postnatal days 1 and 21) and/or environmental enrichment (E: for a period of 6 months) of Roman high- and low-avoidance (RHA/Verh and RLA/Verh) rats induced long-lasting decreases in emotional reactivity (i.e. reduced defecations in the open field, OF, and hole-board, HB, tests) as well as increases in exploratory behavior (i.e. head-dipping) in a manner dependent upon the rat line (there were 'line x H' and 'line x E' interactions). It is reported for the first time that RHA/Verh rats show more head-dipping behavior than RLA/Verh rats, and that the environmental treatments can increase head-dipping of RLA/Verh animals to the level shown by RHA/Verh rats.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID: 1584459 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(92)90400-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurosci Lett ISSN: 0304-3940 Impact factor: 3.046