Ontogeny of Home-orienting Behavior in Rat Pups during the First Half of the Lactation Period: Effects of Early Postnatal Protein Malnutrition on Repeated but not Single Testing

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 425-433

  De Araujo M ^a   Almeida, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Home orientation; Learning; Olfaction; Postnatal protein malnutrition; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0347649900     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.1999.11747296     Document Type: Article

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