Effect of "enriched environment" during development on adult rat behavior and response to the dopamine receptor agonist apomorphine

Neuroscience

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1589-1598

  Hoffmann, L C ^a   Schutte S R M ^a   Koch, M ^a   Schwabe, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

emotion; learning and memory; motivation; motor activity

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GROUPS BY AGE; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOMORPHINE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 60149110372     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.11.035     Document Type: Article

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