Avoidance behaviour and anxiety in rats irradiated with a sublethal dose of gamma-rays

Acta Biologica Hungarica

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 341-348

  Tomášová, Lenka ^a   Smajda B ^a   Bona, M ^a  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

anxiety; avoidance behaviour; Ionizing radiation; rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; GAMMA RADIATION; IONIZING RADIATION; IRRADIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RAT; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GAMMA RAYS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 82955188035     PISSN: 02365383     EISSN: 1588256X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ABiol.62.2011.4.1     Document Type: Article

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