Effects of social and physical enrichment on open field activity differ in male and female Sprague-Dawley rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 187-196

  Elliott, Brenda M ^a   Grunberg, Neil E ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Enrichment; Locomotion; Sprague Dawley rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HABITUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 27644580448     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.06.025     Document Type: Article

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