Comparative fear-related behaviors to predator odors (TMT and natural fox feces) before and after intranasal ZnSO4 treatment in mice

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2010, Pages

  Hacquemand, Romain ^a   Jacquot, Laurence ^a   Brand, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Fox odor; Olfactory nerve; TMT; Trigeminal nerve; Zinc sulfate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855261657     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00188     Document Type: Article

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