Behavioural testing of standard inbred and 5HT1B knockout mice: Implications of absent corpus callosum

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 23-32

  Wahlsten, Douglas ^a   Crabbe, John C ^b   Dudek, Bruce C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Gene environment interaction; Hippocampal commissure; Inbred strains; Locomotor activity; Serotonin receptor knockout; Test standardization

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN 1B RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HISTOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1B; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035829371     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00283-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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