Assessing hoarding in mice

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2828-2830

  Deacon, Robert M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; RAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RATS;

EID: 34548828228     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.171     Document Type: Article

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