[The formation of a functional system of social exploration in the early postnatal period in rat development]
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Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Quantification of Social Behavior in Adult Rats
Published on: December 14, 2014
E A Aleksandrova1, I Iu Zaraĭskaia, N A Shvyrkova
1Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
Abstract:
The early organization was studied of the littermate search functional system. The locomotor elements of exploratory behavior and development of social activity of single rat pups and in groups of three ones were analyzed under conditions of their isolation from mother and nest. The influence was demonstrated of the littermate presence on realization of different types of movements. The age was experimentally determined at which rat pups were capable for learning to seek for their littermates on the basis of olfactory clues.
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