Defensive burying in two strains of rats selected for emotional reactivity

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 281-289

  Wada, Y ^a   Makino, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Defensive burying; Pre encounter defensive behavior; Rats; SSDR; Strain differences; Tsukuba emotional strains

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRETCHING;

EID: 0030693252     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00057-0     Document Type: Article

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