Response to novel object in Wistar and wild-type (WWCPS) rats

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 279-283

  Tanaś, Łukasz ^a   Pisula, Wojciech ^b  

^a SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Exploratory behaviour; Neophobia; Neotic preferences; Novel object; Wild type rats

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MALE BEHAVIOR; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; RAT; WILD TYPE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 79551682206     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.12.018     Document Type: Article

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