Behavioural analysis of four mouse strains in an anxiety test battery

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 95-106

  Van Gaalen, Marcel M ^a   Steckler, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Mice; Tests

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FLUID INTAKE; HOT PLATE TEST; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; SWIMMING;

ANIMAL; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DRINKING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REACTION TIME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 0033825833     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00240-0     Document Type: Article

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