Barbering (Fur and Whisker Trimming) by Laboratory Mice as a Model of Human Trichotillomania and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 216-224

  Garner, Joseph P ^a   Weisker, Sandra M ^a   Dufour, Brett ^a   Mench, Joy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HEREDITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHENOMENOLOGY; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PUBERTY; RISK FACTORS; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 2342471363     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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