The importance of vaginal-cervical stimulation for maternal behaviour in the rat.

abstract：:Young pigs, which are useful experimental animals for biomedical research, were prepared with lateral intracerebroventricular (ICV) cannulae and housed individually in cages fitted with operant panels, with food and water ad lib. ICV injection of 200 micrograms of dynorphin A 1-17 or 1-13 resulted in a significant mea...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Baldwin BA,de la Riva C,Ebenezer IS

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies demonstrate that 14-day-old rats reduce their emission of ultrasonic vocalizations and freeze when exposed to an unfamiliar adult male rat. This study sought to identify the stimulus characteristics of conspecific males that potentiate the display of behavioral inhibition. In Experiment 1, day 14 rats...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Takahashi LK

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, there are no effective pharmacological therapies for chronic tinnitus despite a number of efforts from clinical studies and more recently, studies in animals using compounds to enhance endogenous inhibition or reduce central hyperactivity. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the therapeutic eff...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Lobarinas E,Dalby-Brown W,Stolzberg D,Mirza NR,Allman BL,Salvi R

更新日期：2011-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory formation is promoted by stress via the release of norepinephrine and stimulation of beta-adrenergic receptors (β-ARs). Previous data demonstrate that repeated stressor exposure increases norepinephrine turnover and β-AR signaling within the amygdala, which led to the hypothesis that some stress-induced behavio...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Camp RM,Johnson JD

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mashona mole rat, Cryptomys darlingi, is a social, subterranean African rodent that is rarely, if ever, exposed to light, and that exhibits a regressed visual system. This study investigated locomotor activity patterns of Mashona mole rats (n=12) under different light cycles. Activity was measured using either inf...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Vasicek CA,Oosthuizen MK,Cooper HM,Bennett NC

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1975, at the start of my junior year in college, I took a course on experimental methods in psychology from Dr. James C. Smith, when he was a Visiting Professor at Penn State University. That experience set me on the professional path of studying the neural bases of taste function and ingestion on which I remain to...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Spector AC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single and population-mean cosinor analyses document a circadian rhythm in salivary cortisol of pigs (p < 0.001). The midline estimated statistic of rhythm, the MESOR (M), is 1.50 +/- 0.07 ng/ml. For the group of 14 pigs studied there was a predictable variation of 64% around this mean in salivary cortisol within a da...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Ekkel ED,Dieleman SJ,Schouten WG,Portela A,Cornélissen G,Tielen MJ,Halberg F

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats shifted from a 32% to 4% sucrose solution consume substantially less 4% sucrose than unshifted animals that experience only the 4% solution. This negative contrast effect was found to be attenuated by lesions of the lateral aspects of the amygdala (basolateral, lateral, and basomedial nuclei) and eliminated by le...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Becker HC,Jarvis MF,Wagner GC,Flaherty CF

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulty in initiating sleep is an important problem because it is associated with an increased incidence of depression, diabetes, myocardial infarction, and higher all-cause mortality. Although experimental studies in controlled settings have shown that warm skin temperature of the extremities (feet and hands) befo...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Saeki K,Obayashi K,Tone N,Kurumatani N

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial stimuli were used to study transient changes in responsiveness of female hamsters in natural estrus to tactile stimuli occurring during mating. Tactile stimulation just lateral to the vagina produces a transient facilitation of responses to stimulation of the contralateral side, while tactile stimulation of...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Noble RG,Attas A,Adler NT

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report the role of olfactory bulb (OB) norepinephrine (NE) in the identification and recognition of urinary chemical cues was examined. In Experiment 1, sexually naive adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with either the noradrenergic neurotoxin, DSP-4, or the water vehicle, and tested for their ability...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Guan X,Blank JL,Dluzen DE

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioural and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses were investigated in farm mink (Mustela vison) selected for either confident or fearful behaviour for nine generations. Two groups of 2-year-old confident (n=12) and fearful (n=12) female mink were given the serotonin (5-HT) 1A receptor agonist buspir...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Malmkvist J,Hansen SW,Damgaard BM

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on sex, rats were randomly assigned to either an enriched or standard environment for 30 days prior to behavioral testing. The predator stress testing consisted of placing the rat in a cat avoidance apparatus so that the rat's behavioral response to a natural stressor, the cat, could be assessed. The rats were s...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Klein SL,Lambert KG,Durr D,Schaefer T,Waring RE

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of a high-fat diet (HFD) in previously trained rats that have been detrained for different periods. Two groups of female rats were, first, either treadmill trained for 8 weeks or remained sedentary (Sed). Trained animals, thereafter, remained inactive for...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Yasari S,Dufresne E,Prud'homme D,Lavoie JM

更新日期：2007-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats weighing 45-50 g were fed 3 diets for 8 wk: a balanced control diet (CD) consisting of 4% fat (polyunsaturated/saturated fatty acids [P/S] ratio 2.9/1) and two fat-rich diets: polyunsaturated (UD)--P/S 7.6/1 and saturated (SD) P/S 0.3/1. After 8 wk feeding on the respective diets, rats were subjected to swimming ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Pereira B,Rosa LF,Safi DA,Guimarães AR,Bechara EJ,Curi R

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental enrichment (EE) is an experimental model which is believed to counteract some of the effects induced by stressors, although few studies have exposed rodents simultaneously to EE and stress. Our aim was to compare the short- and long-term effects of different housing conditions in mice submitted to chroni...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Mesa-Gresa P,Ramos-Campos M,Redolat R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of nitric oxide (NO) upon hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) toxicity in male Sprague-Dawley rats during exposure to 0.5 MPa >99% O(2). In the first experiment, the selective neuronal NO synthase inhibitor 7-nitroindazole (7-NI) was injected intraperitoneally (ip) in 15 rats. Anothe...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Jellestad FK,Gundersen H

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Harmaline (HA) is a beta-carboline commonly known to provoke motor alterations through activation of cells in the inferior olive. In addition, this pharmacological agent also induces cognitive disturbances such as motor and spatial learning impairments. In order to complete and extend these data, we examined the effec...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Hilber P,Chapillon P

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to study the role of angiotensin (Ang) AT1a receptors in dietary sodium-induced changes in blood pressure (BP). We measured light/dark rhythms in BP, heart rate (HR) and drinking behavior in Ang AT1a deficient (AT1a -/-) and wild type (AT1a +/+) mice with arterial telemetric catheters. Mice ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Chen Y,Oroszi TL,Morris M

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of caloric load and nutrient composition on small intestinal satiety was investigated in six dogs with chronic esophageal fistulas. Dogs received small bowel infusion of a mixed nutrient liquid meal, a fat, carbohydrate, and a protein solution over two hours. Each infusion was given over a range of calor...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Geoghegan JG,Cheng CA,Lawson C,Pappas TN

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiment investigated the effects of exposure to inescapable shocks (IS) on subsequent behavior in an elevated plus-maze and on shuttlebox-escape performance in male and female rats. In the elevated plus-maze, exposure to IS resulted in suppression of "total number of arm entries" and "rearings" in males...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Steenbergen HL,Heinsbroek RP,Van Hest A,Van de Poll NE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggressive signaling is a key social behavior of male Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens). Successfully establishing a territory and defending it from intruders has direct fitness effects, making Betta splendens a prime model for studies examining the biological underpinnings of aggressive behavior. Current resear...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Eisenreich BR,Greene S,Szalda-Petree A

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonic imaging was used to quantify oral movements made during the oral processing of foods while subjects assessed the intensity of the sensory attributes, thick, creamy, sweet and bitter. A series of four stimuli were prepared with high and low viscosities and high and low sweetness. Over five sessions, subjects...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： de Wijk RA,Wulfert F,Prinz JF

更新日期：2006-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats placed as intruders in a long-established colony showed significant elevations of plasma corticosterone after 10-20 minutes of intruding. This rise was prevented by 5 days pretreatment with chlordiazepoxide (5 mg/kg). The rats resident in the colony had significantly higher basal corticosterone concentrations com...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： File SE

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain in neonates is associated with short and long-term adverse outcomes. Data demonstrated that long-term consequences of untreated pain are linked to the plasticity of the neonate's brain. Sucrose is effective and safe for reducing painful procedures from single events. However, the mechanism of sucrose-induced anal...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Nuseir KQ,Alzoubi KH,Alhusban A,Bawaane A,Al-Azzani M,Khabour OF

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a disorder observed in children and adults characterized by an accumulation of liver fat (>5% wet weight) in the absence of excessive alcohol intake. NAFLD affects 10 to 30% of the American population and is the most common cause of liver disease in the United States. NAFLD...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Ross AP,Bruggeman EC,Kasumu AW,Mielke JG,Parent MB

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were performed to examine the acute effects of thirst-inducing stimuli upon the intake of tap water and ethanol solutions by golden hamsters, a species which avidly consumes ethanol solutions. In Experiment 1, three groups of adult male hamsters (n = 6/group) were maintained on Purina chow and tap wate...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： DiBattista D

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ethanol on blood pH, PCO2, and PO2 were measured in LS and SS mice in an attempt to ascertain whether these lines of mice, which differ in CNS sensitivity to the behavioral effects of ethanol, also differ in sensitivity to physiological effects of this drug. Long-sleep (LS) female mice were injected int...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Gilliam DM,Collins AC

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared were the light-dark pattern of absolute energy intake and macronutrient selection of male Wistar rats intracerebroventricularly infused with glucagon (5 ng/h) or saline for 7 days in a three-way selection of macronutrients. Glucagon infusion induced a decrease in 24 h and nocturnal energy intake, whereas no s...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Komenami N,Su FH,Thibault L

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In healthy individuals, food cues can trigger hunger and feeding behavior. Likewise, smoking cues can trigger craving and relapse in smokers. Brain imaging studies report that structures involved in appetitive behaviors and reward, notably the insula, striatum, amygdala and orbital frontal cortex, tend to be activated...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Tang DW,Fellows LK,Small DM,Dagher A

更新日期：2012-06-06 00:00:00