Age-related changes in anxiety are task-specific in the senescence-accelerated prone mouse 8

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 644-651

  Chen, Gui Hai ^a   Wang, Cheng ^a   Yangcheng, Han Yu ^b   Liu, Rong Yu ^a   Zhou, Jiang Ning ^c  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Anxiety; Black white alley; Elevated plus maze; Food neophobia; Open field; Senescence accelerated mice (SAM)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE ACCELERATED MOUSE;

EID: 34547900691     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.03.023     Document Type: Article

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