Vol. 28 (5) 2007 Neuro endocrinology letters

Corticosterone response in a resident-intruder-paradigm depends on social state and coping style in adolescent male Balb-C mice.

OBJECTIVE: Social stressors modulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in rodents. However, reports on the association between corticosterone level and behavioural responses to the stressor are ambivalent. This may depend on the experimental paradigm, species- and strain-differences, duration of exposure to the stressor, but also .....