Effects of isolation-rearing on acoustic startle and pre-pulse inhibition in Wistar and Fawn Hooded rats

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 821, Issue , 1997, Pages 542-544

  Hall, F S ^a   Huang, S ^a   Fong, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; GENETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RAT; REARING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030846354     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48325.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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