Cognitive and emotional alterations in periadolescent mice exposed to 2 g hypergravity field

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 383-394

  Francia, Nadia ^a   Santucci, Daniela ^a   Chiarotti, Flavia ^a   Alleva, Enrico ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavior; Hypergravity; Motion sickness; Mouse; Postnatal development; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GRAVITY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTION SICKNESS; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 9744250961     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2004.08.011     Document Type: Article

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