One-way avoidance learning and diazepam in female roman high-avoidance and low-avoidance rats

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 251-253

  Torres, Carmen ^a   Escarabajal, Ma Dolores ^a   Cándido, Antonio ^b   De La Torre, Lourdes ^a   Gómez, Ma José ^a   Maldonado, Antonio ^b   Tobeña, Adolf ^c   Fernández Teruel, Alberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Avoidance; Diazepam; Fear; Freezing; Relief; Roman rats

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; INBRED STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DIAZEPAM; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247202097     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e328157f43c     Document Type: Article

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