Behavioral phenotyping of mixed background (129S5:B6) relaxin-3 knockout mice

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1160, Issue , 2009, Pages 236-241

  Smith, Craig M ^a   Lawrence, Andrew J ^a   Sutton, Steve W ^b   Gundlach, Andrew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b JOHNSON AND JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavior; Knockout mouse; Locomotor activity; Phenotype; Relaxin 3; RXFP3 GPCR135; Stress

Indexed keywords

RELAXIN 3;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC STRESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; ROTAROD TEST; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 64549136231     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03953.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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