A rating scale for wildness and ease of handling laboratory mice: Results for 21 inbred strains tested in two laboratories

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 71-79

  Wahlsten, D ^a   Metten, P ^b   Crabbe, J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotionality; Gene environment interaction; Laboratory environment; Mouse Phenome Project; Vocalization; Wild derived inbred strain

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FOOD DEPRIVATION; INBRED STRAIN; LABORATORY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PERA;

EID: 0038174630     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1601-183X.2003.00012.x     Document Type: Article

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