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Strain and sex alter effects of stress and nicotine on feeding, body weight, and HPA axis hormones.
Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior - 1 Apr 2005
Faraday Martha M, Blakeman Karin H, Grunberg Neil E
Abstract excerpt
Gender and genotype result in differential sensitivity to stress and to nicotine. Male and female Sprague-Dawley and Long-Evans rats exhibit different behavioral responses to immobilization stress and to chronically-administered nicotine, suggesting that these animals may be useful to model human variability in stress and nicotine sensitivity. It is possible that differences in sensitivity of the...
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