A selective genetic analysis of the Syracuse high- and low-avoidance (SHA/Bru and SLA/Bru) strains of rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 1-11

  Brush, F Robert ^a,b   Gendron, Claire M ^a   Isaacson, Mickey D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal anatomy; Adrenal physiology; Avoidance learning; Behavioral genetics; Emotionality; Reciprocal cross

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BREEDING; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TISSUE LEVEL;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CORTICOSTERONE; DEFECATION; FEMALE; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; GENOTYPE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0032704550     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00075-3     Document Type: Article

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