Lack of effect of an early stressful life event on sensorimotor gating in adult rats

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 365-371

  Lehmann, Julia ^a   Pryce, Christopher R ^a   Feldon, Joram ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Litter effects; Long term development; Maternal separation; Rat model; Schizophrenia; Sensorimotor gating

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; STRESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033980112     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-9964(99)00080-8     Document Type: Article

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