Assessment of locomotor activity, acoustic and tactile startle, and prepulse inhibition of startle in inbred mouse strains and F1 hybrids: Implications of genetic background for single gene and quantitative trait loci analyses

Neuroscience

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1075-1086

  Logue, S F ^a   Owen, E H ^a   Rasmussen, D L ^a   Wehner, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetics; Locomotor activity; Mice; Startle response; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HYBRID; INBRED STRAIN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STARTLE REFLEX; TOUCH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION; TOUCH;

EID: 0030849296     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00164-4     Document Type: Article

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