The effects of Isolation-Rearing of rats on behavioural responses to food and environmental novelty

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 281-290

  Hall, F S ^a   Humby, T ^a   Wilkinson, L S ^a   Robbins, T W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Isolation rearing; Neophobia; Open field

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0030792232     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00115-7     Document Type: Article

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