Detailed analysis of the behavior of Lister and Wistar rats in anxiety, object recognition and object location tasks

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 247-266

  Ennaceur, A ^a   Michalikova, S ^a,b   Bradford, A ^a   Ahmed, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Genetic; Habituation; Hippocampus; Mice; Neophobia; Perirhinal; Sex; Validity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONDITIONING; DATA ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 16244386842     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.11.006     Document Type: Article

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