Vulnerability to mild predator stress in serotonin transporter knockout mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 126-140

  Adamec, Robert ^a   Burton, Paul ^a   Blundell, Jacqueline ^a   Murphy, Dennis L ^b   Holmes, Andrew ^c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HTT knockout mice; Anxiety; Cat odor exposure; Elevated plus maze; Factor analysis; Hole board; Lasting effects; Light enhancement; Light dark box; Mice; PTSD; SERT; Startle

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED LIGHT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN; CATS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; GENOTYPE; LIGHTING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ODORS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SMELL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 33646467211     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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