Is it possible to replace stimulus animals by scent-filled cups in the social discrimination test?

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 299-304

  Van den Bos, Ruud ^a   Van der Horst, Klaske J ^a   Baars, Annemarie M ^a   Spruijt, Berry M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Rat; Refinement; Social discrimination test; Social memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; SAWDUST; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIALIZATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036324778     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290203000306     Document Type: Article

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