Acoustic startle and prepulse inhibition in 40 inbred strains of mice

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 716-727

  Willott, James F ^a,b   Tanner, Lisa ^b   O'Steen, Jennifer ^b   Johnson, Kenneth R ^c   Bogue, Molly A ^c   Gagnon, Leona ^c  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of South Florida ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HERITABILITY; INBRED STRAIN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RELIABILITY; SCREENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND PRESSURE; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PHENOTYPE; REFERENCE VALUES; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0043167912     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.4.716     Document Type: Article

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