Variability in general activity and the expression of complex behavior in the fetal rat (Rattus norvegicus)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 785-791

  Reilly, James L ^a   Robertson, Steven S ^a   MacLennan, Benjamin D ^b   Smotherman, William P ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FETUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUTH; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL MOVEMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; MOTIVATION; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUCKING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030740697     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.4.785     Document Type: Article

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