Ultrasonic isolation calls in genetically high-and low-emotional rat pups

Experimental Animals

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 289-294

  Naito, Hiroyuki ^a   Inoue, Maki ^a   Makino, Junsiro ^b  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diazepam; Emotionality; Tsukuba emotional strain rat pups; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; COLD; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0034304117     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.49.289     Document Type: Article

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