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Social subordination produces distinct stress-related phenotypes in female rhesus monkeys.
Psychoneuroendocrinology - 1 Jul 2012
Michopoulos Vasiliki, Higgins Melinda, Toufexis Donna, Wilson Mark E
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Social subordination in female macaques is imposed by harassment and the threat of aggression and produces reduced control over one's social and physical environment and a dysregulation of the limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis resembling that observed in people suffering from psychopathologies. These effects support the contention that this particular animal model is an ethologically relevant paradigm in...
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