Behavioral differences between outbred Wistar, inbred Fischer 344, brown Norway, and hybrid Fischer 344 x brown Norway rats.

doi:10.1016/0031-9384(95)02274-0

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Behavioral differences between outbred Wistar, inbred Fischer 344, brown Norway, and hybrid Fischer 344 x brown Norway rats.

Physiology & behavior - 1 Jul 1996

van der Staay F J, Blokland A

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Age differences in cognition have been found in many learning and memory tasks. These age-related cognitive deficits are at least partially caused by pathologic changes that accompany aging. Therefore, it might be advantageous to select a particular rat strain to study the age-associated decremen...

Topics

Aging
Animals
Avoidance Learning
Crosses, Genetic
Discrimination Learning
Escape Reaction
Female
Genotype
Male
Maze Learning
Mental Recall
Models, Genetic
Orientation
Rats
Rats, Inbred Strains
Social Environment
Species Specificity

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