High Illumination Levels Potentiate the Acoustic Startle Response in Preweanling Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1458-1462

  Weber, Marianne ^a   Watts, Nicola ^a   Richardson, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEAR; FEMALE; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MALE; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0346365381     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1458     Document Type: Article

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