A less stressful animal model: A conditioned avoidance behaviour task for guineapigs

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 206-210

  Agterberg, Martijn J H ^a   Van Den Broek, Marloes ^a   Philippens, Ingrid H C H M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditory; Aversive; Guineapig; Learning; Operant conditioning; Shuttle box

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOTSHOCK; GUINEA PIG; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL WELFARE; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTROSHOCK; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NOISE; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77954447821     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2009.009096     Document Type: Article

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