Changes in the strength of prepulse inhibition with variation in the startle baseline associated with individual differences and with old age in rats and mice

Psychobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 266-274

  Ison, James R ^a   Bowen, G Peter ^a   Pak, James ^a   Gutierrez, Elsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBRED STRAIN; LIGHT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; STARTLE REFLEX; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 0030708849     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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