Early locomotor and social effects in vasopressin deficient neonatal rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 166-177

  Schank, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Behavioral genetics; Brattleboro rats; Locomotion; Locomotor development; Social deficits; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRATTLEBORO RAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOTYPE; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; FEMALE; HYPERKINESIS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, BRATTLEBORO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 57649155771     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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