Abnormal behaviors in the stargazer rat are maladaptive, but not anxiety related

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 1011-1014

  Brock, Jeffery W ^a   Bond, Steven P ^b   Ross, Keith D ^b   Farooqui, Shakeel M ^b   Kloster, Cynthia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elevated plus maze; Open field; Porsolt test; Stargazer rats; Tail flick

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAIL FLICK TEST;

EID: 0029971331     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02170-1     Document Type: Article

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