A novel elevated plus-maze procedure to avoid the one-trial tolerance problem

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2011, Pages

  Schneider, Peggy ^a   Ho, Ying Jui ^b   Spanagel, Rainer ^a   Pawlak, Cornelius Rainer ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Memory; Midazolam; Motivation; One trial tolerance; Re test EPM

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; ONE TRIAL TOLERANCE; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; RAT; RELIABILITY; TIME; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

EID: 84855227448     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00043     Document Type: Article

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