Prepulse facilitation of auditory startle response in hamsters

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 117-120

  Sasaki, Hitoshi ^a   Iso, Hiroyuki ^b   Coffey, Pete ^c   Inoue, Tetsu ^a   Fukuda, Yutaka ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Functional recovery; Hamsters; Prepulse facilitation; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNIFFING; STARTLE REFLEX; VISION; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STARTLE REACTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032577435     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00350-4     Document Type: Article

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