Cellular prion protein modulates defensive attention and innate fear-induced behaviour evoked in transgenic mice submitted to an agonistic encounter with the tropical coral snake Oxyrhopus guibei

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-137

  Lobão Soares, Bruno ^a,b   Walz, Roger ^a,c   Prediger, Rui Daniel Schröder ^c   Freitas, Renato Leonardo ^a   Calvo, Fabrício ^a,g   Bianchin, Marino Muxfeldt ^a,d   Leite, João Pereira ^a   Landemberger, Michele Christine ^e   Coimbra, Norberto Cysne ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Edmond and Lilly Safra International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^d Instituto de Pesquisas Biomédicas   (Brazil)

^e LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g Department of Pharmacology   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cellular prion protein (PrPC); Genetically modified mice; Innate fear related responses; Non venomous coral snake; Olfactory discrimination task; Prey versus predator paradigm

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; GENE DELETION; HYPERACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OXYRHOPUS GUIBEI; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SNAKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELAPIDAE; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; INSTINCT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRPC PROTEINS;

EID: 50549104610     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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