Mood and male sexual behaviour in the APP23 model of Alzheimer's disease

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 146-151

  Vloeberghs, Ellen ^a   Van Dam, Debby ^a   Franck, Frieda ^a   Staufenbiel, Matthias ^b   De Deyn, Peter Paul ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anxiety; APP23 model; Depressive behaviour; Sexual behaviour; Transgenic mouse model

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

AGGRESSION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOOD DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 34248394268     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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