Assessment of spatial learning abilities of mice in a new circular maze

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 79, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 683-693

  Koopmans, Guido ^a   Blokland, Arjan ^a   Van Nieuwenhuijzen, Petra ^a   Prickaerts, Jos ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JANSSEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Learning; Memory; Mice; Phenotyping; Spatial; Strain differences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HABITUATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

EID: 0042383200     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(03)00171-9     Document Type: Article

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