The soya isoflavone content of rat diet can increase anxiety and stress hormone release in the male rat
PsychopharmacologyPublished 5 March 2003
David E. Hartley, Jessica Edwards, Claire E. Spiller, Nazmul Alom, Sonia Tucci, Pallab Seth
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Major changes in behavioural measures of anxiety and in stress hormones can result from the soya isoflavone content of rat diet and could form an important source of between-laboratory variability.
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Major changes in behavioural measures of anxiety and in stress hormones can result from the soya isoflavone content of rat diet. These changes are as striking as those seen following drug administration and could form an important source of variation between laboratories.
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