A behavioral and neuroanatomical assessment of an inbred substrain of 129 mice with behavioral comparisons to C57BL/6J mice

Brain Research

Volumn 836, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 38-48

  Balogh, Seth A ^a   McDowell, Cary S ^a   Stavnezer, Amy Jo ^a   Denenberg, Victor H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

129 mouse; C57 mouse; Corpus callosum; ES cell; Knockout; Non spatial learning; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HYPOPLASIA; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EVALUATION STUDIES; LEARNING; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0033620883     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01586-3     Document Type: Article

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