Date of Award
2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Psychology
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Crawford, Cynthia
Second Advisor
McDougall, Sanders A.
Third Advisor
Chien, Yuchin
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine if Fischer 344 (F344) rats, a strain which naturally shows deficits in social communication during adolescence, could be used as a model of the social communication deficits observed in autism. Thus, the goal was to determine if F344 rats would also show fewer emissions of isolated-induced ultrasonic vocalizations (an early onset form of social interaction) as compared to SD rats. Subjects consisted of 142 F344 rat pups (67 male and 75 female). Subjects were treated according to the "Guide for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research" under a research protocol approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of CSUSB.
Recommended Citation
Britt, Cynthia Elizabeth, "Monoamine modulation of separation-induced ultrasonic vocalizations in preweanling F344 and SD rats" (2013). Theses Digitization Project. 3969.
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3969
