Effects of isolation rearing on startle reactivity, habituation, and prepulse inhibition in male Lewis, Sprague-Dawley, and Fischer F344 rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1450-1457

  Varty, Geoffrey B ^a,b   Geyer, Mark A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RAT; REARING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; GENOTYPE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0032407323     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.6.1450     Document Type: Article

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