Increased sensitization of acoustic startle response in spasmodic mice with a mutation of the glycine receptor alpha1-subunit gene

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 121, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 57-67

  Plappert, Claudia F ^a   Pilz, Peter K D ^a   Becker, Kristina ^b   Becker, Cord Michael ^b   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glycine receptor; Habituation; Mouse mutants; Sensitization; Spasmodic; Startle disease; Startle response

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HABITUATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0035102843     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00385-5     Document Type: Article

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