Male aromatase-knockout mice exhibit normal levels of activity, anxiety and "depressive-like" symptomatology

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 186-193

  Dalla, C ^a,b   Antoniou, K ^b   Papadopoulou Daifoti, Z ^b   Balthazart, J ^a   Bakker, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Aromatase knockout mice; Chronic mild stress; Depression; Elevated plus maze test; Estrogen; Forced swim test; Open field

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENOTYPE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AROMATASE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; STRESS; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23744484195     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.04.020     Document Type: Article

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