Mouse strains differ in their sensitivity to alprazolam effect in the staircase test

Brain Research

Volumn 839, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 58-65

  Weizman, Ronit ^a,d   Paz, Lior ^a   Backer, Maria M ^a   Amiri, Zamir ^b   Modai, Ilan ^b,c   Pick, Chaim G ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHA'AR MENASHE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alprazolam; Benzodiazepine GABA receptor complex; Flumazenil; Mouse strain; Staircase test

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPRAZOLAM; FLUMAZENIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SENSITIVITY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING;

ALPRAZOLAM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUMAZENIL; GABA MODULATORS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033592070     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01664-9     Document Type: Article

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