A multiple-test study of anxiety-related behaviours in six inbred rat strains

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-69

  Ramos, André ^a,b   Berton, Olivier ^a   Mormède, Pierre ^a   Chaouloff, Francis ^a  

^a INSTITUT FRANÇOIS MAGENDIE   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

anxiety; black and white box; diazepam; elevated plus maze; factor analysis; inbred rat strain; pentylenetetrazole; social interaction test

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DIAZEPAM; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; LIGHTING; MALE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031044630     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)00164-7     Document Type: Article

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