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| Hameister,Thaïs M.; Izídio,Geison S.; Valiati,Victor H.; Ramos,André. |
| The Floripa H and L rat lines, selected for high and low locomotion in the central aversive area of an open field, a widely used emotionality test, were proposed as a model for studying the genetic basis of anxiety. The present study aimed to verify if the QTL Ofil1, mapped to rat chromosome 4 and previously identified as being related to emotionality in another population of rats, contributes to the behavioral variability observed in the Floripa rat lines. To this purpose, rats of five generations of selective breeding were genotyped for two polymorphic markers, D4RAT59 and D4MGH27, flanking Ofil1. Changes in genotype and allele frequencies throughout generations were evaluated in both H and L lines, in order to assess if the bidirectional selection based... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: QTL; Emotionality; Rat lines; Behavior genetics; Open field. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572008000500008 |
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| Zemunik,T.; Peruzovic,M.; Capkun,V.; Milkovic,K.. |
| The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that, during adulthood, the offspring of adolescent rats differ in emotionality, learning and memory from the offspring of adult rats. The behavior of the offspring of adolescent (age, 50-55 days) and adult rats (age, 90-95 days) was tested in the open field, activity cage, and passive and active avoidance apparatus. The latencies during training and testing in the passive avoidance apparatus of the offspring of adolescent parents were shorter than the latencies of control offspring (P<0.001 on both training and testing days). Offspring of adolescent parents showed shorter latency time in acquisition trials during active avoidance testing compared to control offspring (P<0.001). They also showed a... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Adolescence; Pregnancy; Behavior; Learning and memory; Emotionality. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2003000400008 |
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| Ruarte,M.B.; Alvarez,E.O.. |
| When rats are exposed to unknown environments where novelty and fear-inducing characteristics are present (conflictive environments), some specific behaviors are induced and exploration is apparently modulated by fear. In our laboratory, a new type of plus-maze was designed as a model of conflictive exploration. The maze is composed of four arms with different geometrical characteristics, differing from each other by the presence or absence of walls. The degree of asymmetry was as follows: NW, no wall arm; SW, a single high wall present; HL, a low and a high wall present, and HH, two high walls present. The four arms were arranged at 90o angles and the apparatus was called the elevated asymmetric plus-maze (APM). The purpose of the present study was to... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Emotionality; Anxiety; Motivation; Elevated asymmetric plus-maze; Benzodiazepine; Conflictive exploration. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1999000100015 |
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| Ruarte,M.B.; Orofino,A.G.; Alvarez,E.O.. |
| The possible role of histamine receptors in the hippocampal formation on the exploratory motivation and emotionality of the rat was studied. An elevated asymmetric plus-maze composed of 4 different arms (no walls, single high wall, high and low walls and two high walls) arranged at 90o angles was used. The exploration score, considered to be an index of exploratory motivation, and the permanency score, considered to be an index of emotionality (anxiety), were determined. Histamine was administered locally into the ventral hippocampus at three different doses (9, 45 and 90 nmol). Another group of rats was also microinjected with 45 nmol of pyrilamine (a histamine H1 receptor antagonist) or ranitidine (a histamine H2 receptor antagonist) in addition to 9... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Emotionality; Motivation; Hippocampus; Histamine; Elevated asymmetric plus-maze. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1997001200012 |
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