Mu opioid receptor knockout mice in the Morris Water Maze: A learning or motivation deficit?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-111

  Lubbers, Marianne E ^a   van den Bos, Ruud ^a   Spruijt, Berry M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exon 1; Learning; Mice; MOR; Morris Water Maze; Motivation; Mu

Indexed keywords

MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWIMMING; VELOCITY; WILD TYPE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTIVATION; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SWIMMING;

EID: 34247581807     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.02.021     Document Type: Article

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