Different rankings of inbred mouse strains on the Morris maze and a refined 4-arm water escape task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 36-51

  Wahlsten, Douglas ^a,b   Cooper, Sean F ^a   Crabbe, John C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene environment interaction; Learning; Mouse Phenome Project; Spatial memory; Swimming; Thigmotaxis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; INBRED STRAIN; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING;

EID: 26944434331     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.06.047     Document Type: Article

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