Sensitivity to apomorphine in the guinea pig as a function of age and body weight
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychopharmacology
- Vol. 57 (3), 279-282
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00426751
Abstract
Male albino guinea pigs aged 4–10 weeks were challenged with 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4 mg/kg apomorphine. Mean stereotypy scores rose significantly as a function of age. Stereotypy scores were better correlated with age than with body weight, suggesting that CNS maturation, rather than weight-related factors, was responsible. Although age and body weight were correlated, there was enough variability to make body weight an unreliable indicator of age.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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