Behavioral and physiological effects of early handling and early malnutrition in rats
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Psychobiology
- Vol. 12 (4) , 381-389
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.420120412
Abstract
This experiment employed a 2 × 2 design in which the nutritional and early stimulation conditions of rat pups were manipulated during the 1st 3 weeks of postnatal life. Animals were observed in various open field activities at 22, 23, 29, 36, and 50 days of age, and killed at 55 days of age for neurochemical analysis. Early handling decreased the behavioral differences due to malnutrition and resulted in fewer, but larger cells in rat forebrain for both well‐nourished and malnourished groups.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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