Wistar audiogenic rats display abnormal behavioral traits associated with artificial selection for seizure susceptibility

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 71, Issue , 2017, Pages 243-249

  Castro, Gabriel Perfeito ^a   Medeiros, Daniel de Castro ^a   Guarnieri, Leonardo de Oliveira ^a   Mourão, Flávio Afonso Gonçalves ^a   Pinto, Hyorrana Priscila Pereira ^a   Pereira, Grace Schenatto ^a   Moraes, Márcio Flávio Dutra ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Comorbidities; Epilepsy; Psychiatric disorder; Seizure predisposition; Wistar audiogenic rat

Indexed keywords

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FORCED SWIM TEST; HOPELESSNESS; MALE; MARBLE BURYING TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; RAT; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; TWO-WAY ACTIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MAZE TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REFLEX EPILEPSY; SEIZURE; WISTAR RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

EID: 84945961487     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.08.039     Document Type: Article

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