Predator odor as an unconditioned fear stimulus in rats: Elicitation of freezing by trimethylthiazoline, a component of fox feces

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 912-922

  Wallace, Karin J ^a   Rosen, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHYLTHIAZOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FECES; FOX; FREEZING; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PREDATOR; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0033788618     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.5.912     Document Type: Article

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