Performance of different mouse strains in an object recognition task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 147, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 49-54

  Şik, Ayhan ^a   Van Nieuwehuyzen, Petra ^a   Prickaerts, Jos ^a,b   Blokland, Arjan ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CNS Research   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Memory; Mice; Object recognition; Strain differences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0344945595     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00117-7     Document Type: Article

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