Sex and strain differences of acoustic startle reaction development in adolescent albino Wistar and hooded rats

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 919-925

  Błaszczyk, Janusz ^a   Tajchert, Katarzyna ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

acoustic startle; development; rat

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0030471685     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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