Labyrinth exploration, emotional reactivity, and conditioned fear in young Roman/Verh inbred rats

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 573-578

  Escorihuela, R M ^a   Fernandez Teruel A ^a   Tobena A ^a   Langhans, W ^b   Battig K ^c   Driscoll, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Conditioned fear; Emotionality; Exploratory activity; Roman Verh inbred strains; Tunnel maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; EMOTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; INBRED STRAIN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHOCK;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TEMPERAMENT;

ANIMALIA; ARENA; ROMAN;

EID: 0031407005     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021413200461     Document Type: Article

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