Prepulse Inhibition of Acoustic Startle Reflex as a Function of the Frequency Difference between Prepulse and Background Sounds in Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Basavaraj, Sidhesh ^a   Yan, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING ACUITY; LATENT PERIOD; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; SOUND; STARTLE REACTION;

MUS;

EID: 84866306482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045123     Document Type: Article

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