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Main Title Behavioral Development Following Daily Episodes of Mother-Infant Separation in the Rat.
Author Stanton, M. E. ; Crofton, K. M. ; Lau, C. ;
CORP Author Health Effects Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC.
Publisher c1992
Year Published 1992
Report Number EPA/600/J-92/441;
Stock Number PB93-141406
Additional Subjects Toxicology ; Behavior ; Laboratory animal science ; Maternal deprivation ; Rats ; Mothers ; Infants ; Neuropsychological tests ; Reprints ;
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NTIS  PB93-141406 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Sprague-Dawley rat pups were either maternally deprived in warm incubators for 6 hours each day or left alone with their dams, and then tested on a range of endpoints commonly used in developmental neurotoxicity. These included motor activity, olfactory learning and retention, T-maze delayed alternation, acoustic startle response, and auditory thresholds. Interrupting the mother-infant interaction for 6 hours/day had little or no effect by itself on growth and behavioral development.