Strain and gender differences in the behavior of mouse lines commonly used in transgenic studies

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 271-281

  Võikar, Vootele ^a   Kõks, Sulev ^b   Vasar, Eero ^b   Rauvala, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavior; Gender; Learning; Locomotor activity; Mouse; Strain; Test battery; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYBRID; HYPERACTIVITY; INBRED STRAIN; LEARNING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0035120455     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(00)00405-4     Document Type: Article

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