Acoustically elicited behaviours in Lister hooded and Wistar rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 521-531

  Commissaris, Randall L ^a   Palmer, Alan ^a   Neophytou, Savvas ^a   Graham, Margaret ^a   Beckett, Simon ^a   Marsden, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Convulsions; Fear; Lister hooded; Locomotion; Panic; Strain differences; Wistar

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; FEAR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0034098561     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(99)00218-8     Document Type: Article

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