The effects of extended training and acute administration of an anxiolytic on avoidance learning and intertrial responding in the syracuse strains of rats

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 575-580

  Gendron, Claire M ^a   Brush, F Robert ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiolytics; avoidance learning; avoidance responses; chlordiazepoxide; intertrial responses; Syracuse high and low avoidance strains of rats

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030464974     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02361230     Document Type: Article

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