Behavioural profiles of inbred mouse strains used as transgenic backgrounds. II: Cognitive tests

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 307-317

  Brooks, S P ^a   Pask, T ^a   Jones, L ^a,b   Dunnett, S B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Background strains; Behaviour; Cognitive; Memory; Mouse

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INBRED STRAIN; LEARNING TEST; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 22344441033     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2004.00109.x     Document Type: Article

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