Behavioral, cognitive and biochemical responses to different environmental conditions in male Ts65Dn mice, a model of Down syndrome

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 174-185

  Martínez Cué, Carmen ^a   Rueda, Noemí ^a   García, Eva ^a   Davisson, Muriel T ^b   Schmidt, Cecilia ^b   Flórez, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Biochemical stress response; Down syndrome; Environmental enrichment; Learning; Ts65Dn mice

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIPLOIDY; DOWN SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; WEANING;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SWIMMING; TESTOSTERONE; TRISOMY;

EID: 23744473479     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.04.016     Document Type: Article

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