Anxiety and panic responses to a predator in male and female Ts65Dn mice, a model for Down syndrome

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 413-422

  Martinez Cue C ^a   Rueda, N ^a   Garcia E ^a   Florez J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Biochemical stress markers; Mouse Defense Test Battery; Panic; Ts65Dn mice

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DOWN SYNDROME; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HYPERACTIVITY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PANIC; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; SEX FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE; TRISOMY;

EID: 33745684724     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2005.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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