Postnatal lesion evidence against a primary role for the corpus callosum in mouse sociability

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1663-1677

  Yang, Mu ^a   Clarke, Andrew M ^a   Crawley, Jacqueline N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agenesis of the corpus callosum; Autism; BTBR T+tf J mice; Mouse models of autism; Repetitive self grooming; Social interactions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GROOMING; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHENOTYPE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 64849113070     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06714.x     Document Type: Article

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