Friday, June 13, 2008

high and low blood pressure has simultaneously influenced the behavior

Data are consistent with the hypothesis that strains selectively bred for some behavioral feature may also differ in central arousal, which will interact with task difficulty to determine performance differences. Data also indicate that selective breeding for high and low blood pressure has simultaneously influenced the behavioral properties of these 2 strains. (31 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA)
Two-way shuttle box and lever-press avoidance in the spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive rat.
Sutterer, James R.; Perry, John; de Vito, William
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=main.doiLanding&uid=1981-07293-001