Barnes maze performance of Octodon degus is gender dependent

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-167

  Popović, Natalija ^a   Madrid, Juan Antonio ^a   Rol, María Ángeles ^a   Caballero Bleda, María ^a,b   Popović, Miroljub ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barnes maze; Gender differences; Octodon degus; Spatial learning and memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OCTODON; OCTODON DEGUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; AGING; ANIMAL; ESTRUS; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCTODON; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953024789     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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