A force plate system for measuring low-magnitude reaction forces in small laboratory animals

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 661-669

  Handley, D E ^a   Ross, J F ^a   Carr, G J ^a  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrylamide; Force plate; Haloperidol; Hopping reaction; Rat; Surface righting reaction

Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDE; HALOPERIDOL;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FORCE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TECHNIQUE; VIBRATION;

EID: 0032123281     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00108-5     Document Type: Article

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