Spatial learning/memory and social and nonsocial behaviors in the Spontaneously Hypertensive, Wistar-Kyoto and Sprague-Dawley rat strains

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 583-594

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

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle; Dominance; Memory; Motor coordination; Play behavior; Prepulse inhibition; Spatial learning; Spontaneously hypertensive; Wistar Kyoto

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; PLAY; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION;

RODENTIA;

EID: 1542300279     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2003.12.014     Document Type: Article

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