Trait and state anxiety in animal models: Is there correlation?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 450, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 266-269

  Goes, Tiago Costa ^a   Antunes, Fabrício Dias ^a   Teixeira Silva, Flavia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Elevated plus maze; Free exploratory paradigm; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CLASSIFICATION; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 58149476586     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.11.037     Document Type: Article

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