Endogenous anxiety and stress responses in water maze and Barnes maze spatial memory tasks

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 247-251

  Harrison, F E ^a   Hosseini, A H ^b   McDonald, M P ^a,b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Barnes maze; Behaviour; Corticosterone; Elevated plus maze; Light dark activity; Morris water maze; Social dominance; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; COGNITION; CORTICOSTERONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 58549116696     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.015     Document Type: Article

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