The female urine sniffing test: a novel approach for assessing reward-seeking behavior in rodents.

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Published in Biol Psychiatry on December 24, 2009

Authors

Oz Malkesman1, Maria Luisa Scattoni, Daniel Paredes, Tyson Tragon, Brandon Pearson, Galit Shaltiel, Guang Chen, Jacqueline N Crawley, Husseini K Manji

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.

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