Swim posture of mice does not affect performance in the water maze

Brain Research

Volumn 1003, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 36-41

  Enthoven, L ^a   Dalm, S ^a   De Kloet, E R ^a   Oitzl, M S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Body posture; Correlation analysis; Female mouse; Learning and memory: systems and functions animals; Neural basis of behavior; Swim posture

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VIDEOTAPE; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POSTURE; SWIMMING;

EID: 1542328812     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2003.10.074     Document Type: Article

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