The power of classic music to reduce anxiety in rats treated with simvastatin

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 5-11

  da Cruz, Júlia Niehues ^a   de Lima, Daniela Delwing ^b   Dal Magro, Débora Delwing ^c   da Cruz, José Geraldo Pereira ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO EXTREMO SUL CATARINENSE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOINVILLE REGION   (Brazil)

^c REGIONAL UNIVERSITY OF BLUMENAU   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Elevated plus maze; Music; Open field; Rattus norvegicus; Simvastatin

Indexed keywords

SIMVASTATIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MUSIC; MUSIC THERAPY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

EID: 84859741052     PISSN: 2008126X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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