Effect of group housing and oral corticosterone administration on weight gain and locomotor development in neonatal rats (1996)

Young, L. A., Pavlovska-Teglia, G., Stodulski, G. et al.

Abstract

The stress response of rats induced by transfer from communal housing to single housing prior to parturition has a negative influence of the offspring. This is manifested by slower growth rate and a retardation in locomotor development.