Absence of Audiogenic Seizures in Wild Norway and Alexandrine Rats
- 21 January 1944
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 99 (2560), 62-63
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.99.2560.62
Abstract
Wild rats behave unlike domestic rats in that they show no convulsive seizures when exposed to loud sounds of high frequency. Dietary deficiencies and loss of adaptive power in domestic rats facilitate sound-elicited seizures.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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