Article
Inbred Roman high- and low-avoidance rats: differences in anxiety, novelty-seeking, and shuttlebox behaviors.
Physiology & behavior - 1 Aug 1999
Escorihuela R M, Fernández-Teruel A, Gil L, Aguilar R, Tobeña A, Driscoll P
Abstract excerpt
In the present study, male inbred animals (from the 10th generation of an inbreeding program that has been carried out in parallel to that of the outbred Roman high- and low-avoidance rat lines), were compared for emotionality in different testing situations, exploratory behavior in the holeboard and two-way, active-avoidance acquisition. Compared to the inbred Roman high-avoidance (RHA-I/Verh) rats, inbred Roman...
Topics
- Animals
- Anxiety
- Appetitive Behavior
- Arousal
- Avoidance Learning
- Brain
- Genetics, Behavioral
- Genotype
- Male
- Maze Learning
- Motivation
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Strains
