A longitudinal study of short- and long-term activity levels in male and female spontaneously hypertensive, Wistar-Kyoto, and Sprague-Dawley rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 271-282

  Ferguson, Sherry A ^a   Cada, Amy M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; METHYLPHENIDATE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPERACTIVITY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TREADMILL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCAPE REACTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; METHYLPHENIDATE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037381574     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.2.271     Document Type: Article

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