The effects of chronic unpredictable stress on male rats in the water maze

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 21-31

  Gouirand, Angela M ^a   Matuszewich, Leslie ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Learning; Locomotion; Spatial memory; Sucrose consumption

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 24944468220     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2005.06.027     Document Type: Article

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