Individual response profiles of male Wistar rats in animal models for anxiety and depression

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-12

  Ho, Ying Jui ^a   Eichendorff, Julian ^b   Schwarting, Rainer K W ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active avoidance; Anxiety; Burying behavior; Elevated plus maze; Forced swim; Individual differences; Open field; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SWIMMING;

EID: 0037126172     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00089-X     Document Type: Article

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