'Return to home cage' as a reward for maze learning in young and old genetically heterogeneous mice

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 196-201

  Blizard, David A ^a   Weinheimer, Viola K ^a   Klein, Laura Cousino ^a   Petrill, Stephen A ^a   Cohen, Rachel ^a   McClearn, Gerald E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; INBRED STRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REWARD; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; REWARD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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