Effects of the genetic background on cognitive performances of TG2576 mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-110

  Lassalle, Jean Michel ^a,b   Halley, Hélène ^a,b   Daumas, Stéphanie ^a,b   Verret, Laure ^a,b   Francés, Bernard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Contextual and cued fear conditioning; Elevated plus maze; Genetic background; Morris navigation task; Tg2576; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; INBRED STRAIN; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 43249100232     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.03.017     Document Type: Article

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