Strain-dependent changes in acoustic startle response and its plasticity across adolescence in Mice

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 623-631

  Pietropaolo, Susanna ^a   Crusio, Wim E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Development; Endophenotype; Inbred mouse strain; Puberty; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; HABITUATION; HEREDITY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PREPULSE INHIBITION; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; FEAR; GENOTYPE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 71549120674     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-009-9291-y     Document Type: Article

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