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Understanding behavioral and physiological phenotypes of stress and anxiety in zebrafish.
Behavioural brain research - 14 Dec 2009
Egan Rupert J, Bergner Carisa L, Hart Peter C, Cachat Jonathan M, Canavello Peter R, Elegante Marco F, Elkhayat Salem I, Bartels Brett K, Tien Anna K, Tien David H, Mohnot Sopan, Beeson Esther, Glasgow Eric, Amri Hakima, Zukowska Zofia, Kalueff Allan V
Abstract excerpt
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is emerging as a promising model organism for experimental studies of stress and anxiety. Here we further validate zebrafish models of stress by analyzing how environmental and pharmacological manipulations affect their behavioral and physiological phenotypes. Experimental manipulations included exposure to alarm pheromone, chronic exposure to fluoxetine, acute exposure to caffeine, as...
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