Open AccessCategories of Wistar Rats Based on Anxiety Traits: A Study Using Factor and Cluster Method
Author(s) -
Arathi Radhakrishnan,
Kamalesh K. Gulia
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
annals of neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.545
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0976-3260
pISSN - 0972-7531
DOI - 10.1159/000492268
Subject(s) - anxiety , elevated plus maze , exploratory factor analysis , open field , clinical psychology , cluster (spacecraft) , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , psychometrics , computer science , programming language
Outcomes of neurobehavioral studies are invariably affected by the variations in the anxiety traits of animals in the same species. Identifying those traits and categorizing them accordingly would improve the reproducibility of results, and reduce the variation in the results from different laboratories.