Article
Fear-potentiated startle in two strains of inbred mice.
Behavioral neuroscience - 1 Aug 1997
Falls W A, Carlson S, Turner J G, Willott J F
Abstract excerpt
The fear-potentiated startle paradigm has been used with great success to examine conditioned fear in both rats and humans. The purpose of this study was to examine fear-potentiated startle in inbred mice. One-month-old C57BL/6J (C57) and DBA/2J (DBA) mice were given tone + foot shock training tr...
Topics
- Acoustic Stimulation
- Animals
- Association Learning
- Conditioning, Classical
- Electroshock
- Fear
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Rats
- Reflex, Startle
- Species Specificity