Effects of litter origin and weight on behaviour of outbred NIH/S mice in plus-maze and staircase tests

Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-134

  Õkva, Kai ^a   Lang, Aavo ^a   Nevalainen, Timo ^b,c   Mauranen, Kari ^b   Väli, Marika ^a   Pokk, Paavo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED STRAIN; STAIRCASE TEST; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 55349087940     PISSN: 09013393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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