The lack of behavioral effects of fenbendazole: A medication for pinworm infection

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 17-23

  Keen, Richard G ^a,b   Macinnis, Mika L M ^a   Guilhardi, Paulo ^a   Chamberland, Karen A ^a   Church, Russell M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; FENBENDAZOLE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EGG; ENTEROBIASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORM INFECTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTEROBIUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; RODENTIA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FENBENDAZOLE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RODENT DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17144399238     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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