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The hypertensive status of the mother can affect the behavioral traits of its offspring in early ontogeny. Rats with inherited stress-induced arterial hypertension (ISIAH) exhibit a delay in locomotor activity development as compared with WAG rats during the first week of life, but they show a higher locomotor activity in the open field test during the second week of development. Using the method of principal components, a higher level of exploratory behavior and a higher adaptability of ISIAH rat neonates as compared to WAG neonates were shown in the third week of postnatal development. Vibrissa growth and hair coat formation did not differ between the strains by the end of the second week.
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Original Russian Text © I.O. Meshkov, T.A. Alekhina, T.A. Moreva, 2014, published in Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genetiki i Selektsii, 2014, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 363–372.
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Meshkov, I.O., Alekhina, T.A. & Moreva, T.A. Behavior of rat neonates with inherited stress induced arterial hypertension. Russ J Genet Appl Res 4, 575–582 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079059714060136
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