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Situational-Dependence and Differential Mediation of Analgesic Reactions to Conspecific Attack in Mice

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Ethopharmacology of Agonistic Behaviour in Animals and Humans

Part of the book series: Topics in the Neurosciences ((TNSC,volume 7))

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Within the past decade, a growing appreciation and application of ethological perspectives has led to substantial advances in our understanding of the physiology of aggression and defeat. Such progress stems from the important theoretical contribution of Paul Scott (1958) with his concept of ‘agonistic behaviour’ and the elegant descriptive studies of Ewan Grant and John Mackintosh (1963) on social patterns in common laboratory rodents. The former directly drew attention to aggression as part of a much larger behavioural repertoire subserving adaptation to situations involving intraspecific conflict, whilst the latter documented the specific acts and postures assocated with such interactions in a variety of species. Early examples of the extension of this knowledge to the study of drug effects on agonistic behaviour can be found in the work of Chance and Silverman (1964), Krsiak and Steinberg (1969), Miczek (1974) and Poshivalov (1974). The impact of the pharmacoethological (or is it ethopharmacological?) approach in contemporary laboratory studies on fighting behaviour in animals is self-evident in the literature.

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Rodgers, R.J., Randall, J.I. (1987). Situational-Dependence and Differential Mediation of Analgesic Reactions to Conspecific Attack in Mice. In: Olivier, B., Mos, J., Brain, P.F. (eds) Ethopharmacology of Agonistic Behaviour in Animals and Humans. Topics in the Neurosciences, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3359-0_5

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