Long-term individual housing in C57BL/6J and DBA/2 mice: Assessment of behavioral consequences

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 240-252

  Võikar, Vootele ^a   Polus, A ^a   Vasar, E ^b   Rauvala, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavioral phenotyping; Individual housing; Learning; Memory; Mice; Social isolation; Test battery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEEDING; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HABITUATION; HOUSING; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPONEOPHAGIA TEST; IMMOBILIZATION; LEARNING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIGHT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING;

EID: 20444413450     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2004.00106.x     Document Type: Article

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