Age-dependent measures of anxiety and cognition in male histidine decarboxylase knockout (Hdc-/-) mice

Brain Research

Volumn 1071, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-123

  Acevedo, Summer F ^a   Ohtsu, Hiroshi ^b   Benice, Theodore S ^a   Rizk Jackson, Angela ^a   Raber, Jacob ^a,b,c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elevated plus maze; Elevated zero maze; Histamine; Light dark; Open field; Passive avoidance; Rotorod; Spatial learning and memory; Water maze

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; HISTIDINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; WILD TYPE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HISTIDINE DECARBOXYLASE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 32844458762     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.11.067     Document Type: Article

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