Rat strain-dependent effects of repeated stress on the acoustic startle response

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 144, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 11-18

  Conti, Lisa H ^a   Printz, Morton P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elevated plus maze; Habituation; Prepulse inhibition; Rat strain; Startle; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADAPTATION SYNDROME; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HABITUATION; INBRED STRAIN; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; SPECIES COMPARISON; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0041386325     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00061-5     Document Type: Article

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