Differences in conditional self-discrimination between wistar and Sprague-Dawley strains Academic Article

journal

  • Interamerican Journal of Psychology

abstract

  • Conditional self-discrimination capacity was studied and compared between two strains of 4 weeks old Rattus norvegicus. Each strain (15 Wistar and 16 Sprague-Dawley) was considered as a group, both trained under an escape paradigm in which a lever was associated to presence or absence of methylphenidate. The dependent variable was measured during the phase of extinction

publication date

  • 2011-1-1

edition

  • 45

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0034-9690

number of pages

  • 7

start page

  • 449

end page

  • 456