A comparison of developmental trajectories of prepulse inhibition between male and female rats

Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 160-166

  Yang, Yang ^a   Su, Yun'ai ^a   Guo, Chunmei ^a   Feng, Yu ^a   Li, Jitao ^a   Si, Tianmei ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY SIXTH HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Childhood; Development; Prepusle inhibition; Sex differneces

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

EID: 78651500428     PISSN: 17381088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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