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RECORD NUMBER: 2 OF 20Main Title | Behavioral Development Following Daily Episodes of Mother-Infant Separation in the Rat. | |||||||||||
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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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Collation | 5p | |||||||||||
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. |