Transport of animals between rooms: A little-noted aspect of laboratory procedure that may interfere with memory

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-19

  Moura, Paula Jaqueline ^a,b   Venkitaramani, Deepa V ^a   Tashev, Roman ^a   Lombroso, Paul J ^a   Xavier, Gilberto Fernando ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Memory disruption; PCA; Principal Component Analysis; Rats transfer; Social recognition; Social recognition memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MEMORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; RELATEDNESS; RODENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAT; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORTATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 80051587807     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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