Survey of embryonic stem cell line source strains in the water maze reveals superior reversal learning of 129S6/SvEvTac mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-48

  Clapcote, Steven J ^a   Roder, John C ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cell; Genetic background; Spatial learning; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; INBRED STRAIN; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 2342501767     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2003.09.030     Document Type: Article

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