Article
[The characteristics of the functional activity of the brain serotoninergic system in the manifestation of natural and pathological anxiety in mice: the effect of the genotype].
Zhurnal vysshei nervnoi deiatelnosti imeni I P Pavlova - 1 Jan 2000
Avgustinovich D F, Lipina T V, Alekseenko O V, Amstislavskaia T G, Kudriatseva N N
Abstract excerpt
Anxiety was estimated in intact male mice of C57BL/6J (C57) and (CBA) and CBA/Lac (CBA) strains and in males of both strains after the repeated experience of social defeats (losers) in 10 daily aggressive confrontations. A plus-maze test for behavior in a novel situation and a partition test for...
Topics
- Animals
- Anxiety
- Anxiety Disorders
- Brain
- Brain Chemistry
- Conflict, Psychological
- Genotype
- Male
- Maze Learning
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Receptors, Serotonin
- Stress, Psychological