Article
Sensitization of the plasma corticosterone response to novel environments.
Physiology & behavior - 1 Dec 1991
Hennessy M B
Abstract excerpt
In Experiment 1, ICR Swiss mice were exposed to one of two novel cages for 1, 6, or 10 30-min trials. Plasma corticosterone elevations were greater in the more novel than in the less novel cage and following the sixth as compared to the first and tenth exposures. In Experiment 2, BALB/c and C57BL/6J mice and Sprague-Dawley rats also exhibited significant, though modest, increases in corticosterone levels from...
Topics
- Animals
- Corticosterone
- Electroshock
- Environment
- Genotype
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred ICR
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Strains
