Altered behavioural adaptation in mice with neural corticotrophin-releasing factor overexpression

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 598-607

  Kasahara, M ^a   Groenink, L ^b   Breuer, M ^b   Olivier, B ^b,c   Sarnyai, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Corticotrophin releasing factor; Individual differences; Open field; Stress; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; HABITUATION; LOCOMOTION; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INDIVIDUALITY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 34748813151     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2006.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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