Effect of Morris water maze diameter on visual-spatial learning in different mouse strains

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 164-172

  Van Dam, Debby ^a   Lenders, Guy ^a   De Deyn, Peter Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

129S5 SvEvBrd; BALB c; C57Bl 6; Maze diameter; Morris water maze; Rodents; Visual spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS; VISION;

ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; ORIENTATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 32644474211     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2005.09.006     Document Type: Article

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