The use of a test battery assessing affective behavior in rats: Order effects

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-21

  Blokland, Arjan ^a   ten Oever, Sanne ^a   van Gorp, Dennis ^a   van Draanen, Michael ^a   Schmidt, Theodor ^a   Nguyen, Emily ^a   Krugliak, Alexandra ^a   Napoletano, Anthony ^a   Keuter, Sarah ^a   Klinkenberg, Inge ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal model; Anxiety; Depression; Forced Swim Test; Open Field; Order effect; Zero Maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOOD DISORDERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SWIMMING;

EID: 83455173549     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.11.042     Document Type: Article

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