Influence of trait anxiety on the effects of acute stress on learning and retention of the passive avoidance task in male and female mice

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 105, Issue , 2014, Pages 6-14

  Navarro Francés, Concepción I ^a   Arenas, M Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Memory; Mice; Passive avoidance conditioning; Sex differences; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOASSAY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; LEARNING; RODENT; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FEMALE; HOT PLATE TEST; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAIT ANXIETY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896053458     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.02.009     Document Type: Article

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