Behavioral differences among fourteen inbred mouse strains commonly used as disease models

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 326-334

  Bothe, Gerald W M ^a,c   Bolivar, Valerie J ^b   Vedder, Michelle J ^a   Geistfeld, James G ^a  

^a Taconic Farms Inc   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c Taconic Biotechnology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645049632     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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