Aversive training methods in Xenopus laevis: General principles

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 521-527

  Blackiston, Douglas J ^a   Levin, Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EMBRYO; FEEDING; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RECALL; TADPOLE; TRAINING; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; AUTOMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MEMORY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84860572122     PISSN: 19403402     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top068338     Document Type: Article

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