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The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO), Measurement Methods Ontology (MMO), and Experimental Condition Ontology (XCO) are currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about these vocabularies please see Shimoyama et al. Three ontologies to define phenotype measurement data. Front Genet. 2012;3:87. Epub 2012 May 28 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:defensive burying test
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Accession:MMO:0000559 term browser browse the term
Definition:A method which utilizes a chamber in which one or more noxious substances or aversive stimulus-inducing devices, such as an electrified shock probe are located, and in which a movable material such as wood bedding or sand is available. Test subjects are observed burying the adverse stimulus under the movable material, presumably as a defensive or protective response.
Synonyms:related_synonym: defensive burying apparatus method;   defensive burying chamber method


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