Odor detection performance in hypothyroid and euthyroid rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-121

  Brosvic, Gary M ^a,b   Risser, Judith M ^a,b   Mackay Sim, Alan ^c   Doty, Richard L ^b  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hormones; Hypothyroidism; Odor Detection; Olfaction; Operant; Signal detection; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

PROPYLTHIOURACIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTOMETRY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SMELLING;

EID: 0030044076     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)00145-X     Document Type: Article

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