Part III: Principal component analysis: Bridging the gap between strain, sex and drug effects

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 288, Issue , 2015, Pages 153-161

  Keeley, R J ^a   McDonald, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Principal component analysis; Rat strain; Sex; THC

Indexed keywords

DRONABINOL; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; DRONABINOL; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR SKILLS; ORGAN SIZE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84937761107     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.03.027     Document Type: Article

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