Automated measurement of mouse freezing behavior and its use for quantitative trait locus analysis of contextual fear conditioning in (BALB/cJ x C57BL/6J)F2 mice

Learning and Memory

Volumn 5, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 391-403

  Valentinuzzi, Veronica S ^a,b   Kolker, Daniel E ^a   Vitaterna, Martha Hotz ^a   Shimomura, Kazuhiro ^a   Whiteley, Andrew ^a   Low Zeddies, Sharon ^a   Turek, Fred W ^a   Ferrari, Elenice A M ^b   Paylor, Richard ^c,d   Takahashi, Joseph S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME 8; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032448549     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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