Altered motor activity, exploration and anxiety in heterozygous neuregulin 1 mutant mice: Implications for understanding schizophrenia

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 677-687

  Karl, T ^a,b   Duffy, L ^a,b   Scimone, A ^b   Harvey, R P ^c   Schofield, P R ^a,b,c,d  

^a Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age; Anxiety; Behaviour; Environmental enrichment; Exploration; Habituation; Hyperactivity; Neuregulin 1; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THEORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTATION; NEUREGULIN-1; PHENOTYPE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

MUS;

EID: 34748906661     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2006.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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