Heart rate and heart rate variability assessment identifies individual differences in fear response magnitudes to earthquake, free fall, and air puff in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Jun ^a,c   Wei, Wei ^a,c   Kuang, Hui ^b,c   Tsien, Joe Z ^b,c   Zhao, Fang ^b,c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Banna Biomedical Research Institute   (China)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALLING; FEAR; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; WILD TYPE;

AIR; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EARTHQUAKES; FEAR; HEART RATE; INDIVIDUALITY; MICE; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 84899708250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093270     Document Type: Article

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