Anti-aggressive effects of neuropeptide S independent of anxiolysis in male rats

Neuropeptide S (NPS) exerts robust anxiolytic and memory enhancing effects, but only in a non-social context. In order to study whether NPS affects aggressive behavior we used Wistar rats bred for low (LAB) and high (HAB) levels of innate anxiety-related behaviour, respectively, which were both desc...

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Main Authors: Daniela I Beiderbeck, Michael eLukas, Inga D Neumann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00185/full