Behavioural and cognitive abnormalities in an imprinting centre deletion mouse model for Prader-Willi syndrome

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 156-164

  Relkovic, Dinko ^b,c   Doe, Christine M ^c   Humby, Trevor ^c   Johnstone, Karen A ^d   Resnick, James L ^e   Holland, Anthony J ^f   Hagan, Jim J ^g   Wilkinson, Lawrence S ^c   Isles, Anthony R ^a,c,f  

^a Behavioral Genetics Group   (United Kingdom)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

15q11 q13; Attention; Locomotor activity; Pre pulse inhibition; Startle response

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME 15Q; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; REACTION TIME; SEQUENCE DELETION; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 72949087949     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.07048.x     Document Type: Article

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