Quantitative study of the response to genetic selection of the wistar audiogenic rat strain (WAR)

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-42

  Doretto, M C ^a   Fonseca, C G ^a   Lobo R B ^b   Terra, V C ^b   Oliveira, J A C ^b   Garcia Cairasco, N ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Audiogenic seizures; Genetic selection; Neuroethology; Rat; Seizure severity index

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; INBREEDING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0037266795     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021099432759     Document Type: Article

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