Differences in acquisition and full performance in skilled forelimb use as measured by the 'staircase test' in five rat strains.

doi:10.1016/s0166-4328(97)00128-9

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Differences in acquisition and full performance in skilled forelimb use as measured by the 'staircase test' in five rat strains.

Behavioural brain research - 1 Apr 1998

Nikkhah G, Rosenthal C, Hedrich H J, Samii M

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Skilled forelimb use was examined in five different rat strains (DA/Ztm, LEW/Ztm-ci, LEW.1W/Ztm, SD/Ztm, SPRD/Ztm-Cu3) by means of the 'staircase test', as originally described by Montoya et al. [20] (C.P. Montoya, H.L. Campbell, K.D. Pemberton, S.B. Dunnett, The 'staircase test': A measure of independent forelimb reaching and grasping abilities in rats, J. Neurosci. Methods 36 (1991) 219-228). Strain-dependent...

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