Effects of day-length variations on emotional responses towards unfamiliarity in Swiss mice

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-157

  Kopp, C ^a   Misslin, R ^a   Vogel, E ^a   Rettori, M C ^b   Delagrange, P ^b   Guardiola Lemaitre B ^b  

^a Lab d'Ethologie et de Neurobiologie   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

Day length; Emotionality; Free exploration; Locomotion; Melatonin; Mouse; Rears; Unfamiliarity

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

EID: 0030780219     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00043-0     Document Type: Article

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