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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mongolian gerbils"”.
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Behavioural mechanisms underlying infant care in male and female Mongolian gerbils
… in several species. Male and female adult Mongolian gerbils, Meriones unguiculatus were singly exposed to protected pups (PP exposures). Exposures lasted for ten minutes, and were carried out each day. Behaviour patterns shown by the adults were recorded, and their frequencies measured. …
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Identifying the Cellular Sources of the Low-Frequency Cochlear Response
… potential recorded from the round window in gerbils to low-frequency tones contains responses from a number of cellular sources in addition to and, in some high-pass noise conditions, more substantial than the outer hair cell response. A model is created from data found in existing literature …
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Sex differences in the actions of psychoactive agents and progesterone on anxiety-related behaviour in the mongolian gerbil (meriones unguiculatus) and the effects of corticosterone on the hippocampal morphology of wistar rats (rattus norvegicus)
… box tests of anxiety for male and female Mongolian gerbils. The second part of this thesis then evaluates the behavioural effects of progesterone treatment and withdrawal in this species. Finally, this thesis evaluates the influence of chronic corticosterone treatment on hippocampal volume …
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Reducing the risk of prostate cancer with tomato and soy bioactives
… has not been well understood. Therefore, we fed Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) a 20% fat diet containing 10% tomato powder (TP) and either safflower oil (polyunsaturated fat) or coconut oil (saturated fat) and determined the influence of dietary fat type on tissue carotenoid …