Isolation rearing affects sequential organization of motor behavior in post-pubertal but not pre-pubertal Lister and Sprague-Dawley rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 271-280

  P Paulus, Martin ^a   P Bakshi, Vaishali ^a   Geyer, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral measures; Isolation rearing; Motor behavior; Neuroanatomical measures; Neurochemical measures; Sequential organization; Social rearing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; HABITUATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; REARING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DOPAMINE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0031878186     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00158-7     Document Type: Article

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