THE BEHAVIOR OF THE LABORATORY RAT A Handbook with Tests

By I. Q. Wishaw, B. Kolb. 2004

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What is it like to be a rat? Rat sensory perception and its implications for experimental design and rat welfare (2008, background): “…similar perceptual abilities to each other, constitute over 80% of all research animals in the European Union (Commission of the European Communities, 2003), and they have been bred for research since the late 1800s (Krinke, 2000; Whishaw & Kolb, 2005), much is known about their perceptual biases.”
Distinct hippocampal-cortical memory representations for experiences associated with movement versus immobility (2017, unknown): “For rodents, exploratory behavior is characterized by alternating bouts of movement and immobility (Drai et al., 2001; Whishaw and Kolb, 2005), which are associated with distinct experiences.”
The rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg), a GABAergic afferent to midbrain dopamine neurons, encodes aversive stimuli and inhibits motor responses. (2009, methodology): “We delineated the RMTg periphery with 1 mm circles centered at the lateral edge of the core at its midcaudal and caudalmost levels (larger dashed circles in Figures 2B and 2D).”