Behavioural alterations in male mice lacking the gene for d-aspartate oxidase

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 295-302

  Weil, Zachary M ^a   Huang, Alex S ^b   Beigneux, Anne ^c   Kim, Paul M ^b   Molliver, Mark E ^b   Blackshaw, Seth ^b   Young, Stephen G ^c   Nelson, Randy J ^a   Snyder, Solomon H ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural phenotyping; d amino acids; d aspartate; d aspartate oxidase; Knockout mice; Prepulse inhibition; RotoRod

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DEXTRO ASPARTATE OXIDASE; ISOENZYME; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL GLAND; AFFECT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CEREBELLUM; D-ASPARTATE OXIDASE; D-ASPARTIC ACID; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHENOTYPE; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; STARTLE REACTION; SWIMMING;

EID: 33745420271     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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