Individual housing from rearing modifies the performance of young rats on the elevated plus-maze apparatus

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1391-1396

  Da Silva, Nelci Lopes ^a   Ferreira, Vania Maria Moraes ^a   De Padua Carobrez, Antonio ^a   Morato, Gina Struffaldi ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Diazepam; Elevated plus maze; Gender; Pentylenetetrazol; Rat

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOUSING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; WEANING;

EID: 0030561468     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00254-5     Document Type: Article

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