TY - JOUR ID - 129002399 TI - Mother lowers glucocorticoid levels of preweaning rats after acute threat. AU - Barr, G. A. AU - Wiedenmayer, C. P. AU - Magarinos, A. M. AU - McEwen, B. S. PY - 2003 DB - UniCat KW - Adult. KW - Anxiety disorders. KW - Aversive stimulation. KW - Consequences. KW - Corticosterone. KW - Endocrine. KW - Experience. KW - Exposure. KW - Glucocorticoid. KW - Hpa axis. KW - Level. KW - Male rat. KW - Male. KW - Mother. KW - Ontogeny. KW - Pups. KW - Rat. KW - Rats. KW - Release. KW - Response. KW - Responses. KW - Social buffering. KW - Social. KW - Stress response. KW - Stress-response. KW - Stress. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129002399 AB - Exposure to a deadly threat, an adult male rat, induced the release of corticosterone in 14-day-old rat pups. The endocrine stress response was decreased when the pups were reunited with their mother immediately after exposure. These findings demonstrate that social variables can reduce the consequences of an aversive experience ER -