Wistar-Kyoto rats as an animal model of anxiety vulnerability: Support for a hypervigilance hypothesis

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 162-168

  McAuley, J D ^a,b,d   Stewart, A L ^a   Webber, E S ^a   Cromwell, H C ^a   Servatius, R J ^b,c   Pang, K C H ^b,c  

^a Mind and Behavior   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Hypervigilance; Sensorimotor gating; Timing

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67849114031     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.05.036     Document Type: Article

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