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Assessment of Susceptibility of Outbred Albino Rats to the Formation of Depression-Like State of Learned Helplessness.
Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine - 1 Dec 2020
Kotel'nikova S O, Sadovsky M S, Krayneva V A, Valdman E A, Seredenin S B
Abstract excerpt
Learned helplessness (a model of depression-like state) was developed in rats by exposure to repeated inescapable electric stimulation and evaluated by the absence of attempts to escape when it could be performed. In randomly grouped outbred white rats, 37.5% animals after the above procedure meet the criterion of learned helplessness. On experimental day 14, the latent period and the number of applied electric...
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