Differences in conditional self-discrimination between wistar and Sprague-Dawley strains
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 methylpheni...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | Colombia |
| Institución: | Universidad del Rosario |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/24324 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/24324 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Conditional self-discrimination Social behavior Sprague-dawley rats Wistar rats |
| Sumario: | 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. Significant differences were found for self-discrimination capacity, and between groups, being the Sprague-Dawley the strain with a better performance. Even though both strains are able to discriminate their internal state, and learn to use such state as a discriminative stimulus, the social variable seem to be a remarkable component of the differences found in the strains performances. |
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