An assessment of behavioral aging in the Mongolian gerbil

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 707-717

  Spangler, Edward L ^a,c   Hengemihle, John ^a   Blank, Grant ^b   Speer, Dorey L ^a   Brzozowski, Stacie ^b   Patel, Namisha ^a   Ingram, Donald K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Epilepsy; Learning; Memory; Motor skills

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; GERBIL; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEIZURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GERBILLINAE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEIZURES;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; MAMMALIA; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS;

EID: 0030698805     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(97)00055-7     Document Type: Article

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