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In an accompanying paper in this volume (Van der Staay et al., 1985) we reported on positive behavioral effects of chronic dietary choline enrichment in a spatial discrimination task and in a passive avoidance task. An age-related decline of performance was found in the spatial discrimination task, but not in the passive avoidance task. The absence of age differences in passive avoidance behavior appears to be a strain-related phenomenon since an age-related decline in performance has been shown to exist in other strains of rats and in mice.
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Raaijmakers, W.G.M., van der Staay, F.J., Collijn, T.H., Veening, J.G. (1986). Hippocampal Morphometry in the Rat: Age-Related Changes and Modulation by Chronic Dietary Choline Enrichment. In: Fisher, A., Hanin, I., Lachman, C. (eds) Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 29. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2179-8_69
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