The regular and light-dark Suok tests of anxiety and sensorimotor integration: Utility for behavioral characterization in laboratory rodents

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-136

  Kalueff, Allan V ^a,b   Keisala, Tiina ^a   Minasyan, Anna ^a   Kumar, Senthil R ^c   LaPorte, Justin L ^b   Murphy, Dennis L ^b   Tuohimaa, Pentti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics   (Cayman Islands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG SCREENING; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SUOK TEST; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DARKNESS; LIGHT; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 38149088868     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.516     Document Type: Article

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