Response to novelty of various types in laboratory rats

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 235-243

  Pisula, Wojciech ^a   Stryjek, Rafał ^a   Nałçcz Tolak, Aleksandra ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Exploratory behavior; Habituation; Investigatory responses; Low stress; Novelty; Response to novelty

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; LABORATORY; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

EID: 33751015471     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 00651400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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