Sexually divergent expression of active and passive conditioned fear responses in rats

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue NOVEMBER2015, 2015, Pages

  Gruene, Tina M ^a   Flick, Katelyn ^a   Stefano, Alexis ^a   Shea, Stephen D ^b   Shansky, Rebecca M ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84955304981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.11352.001     Document Type: Article

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