Social defeat protocol and relevant biomarkers, implications for stress response physiology, drug abuse, mood disorders and individual stress vulnerability: a systematic review of the last decade

Introduction: Social defeat (SD) in rats, which results from male intraspecific confrontations, is ethologically relevant and useful to understand stress effects on physiology and behavior.Methods: A systematic review of studies about biomarkers induced by the SD protocol and published from 2002 to...

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Main Authors: Mailton Vasconcelos, Dirson João Stein, Rosa Maria M. de Almeida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul 2015-06-01
Series:Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2237-60892015000200051&lng=en&tlng=en