Spontaneously hypertensive, Wistar Kyoto and Sprague-Dawley rats differ in their use of place and response strategies in the water radial arm maze

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 285-294

  Clements, K M ^a   Saunders, A J ^a   Robertson, B A ^a   Wainwright, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); Conditioned place preference task; Emotional memory; Non spatial memory; Place strategy; Procedural memory; Response strategy; Spatial memory; Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR); Sprague Dawley rats; Water radial arm maze (wRAM); Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY)

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33845949717     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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