Leptin-deficient mice retain normal appetitive spatial learning yet exhibit marked increases in anxiety-related behaviours

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 210, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 559-568

  Finger, Beate C ^a   Dinan, Timothy G ^a,b   Cryan, John F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anxiolyti; C anxiety; Food intake; Learning and memory; Leptin; Maze; Memory; Mouse model; Obesity; Reward; Satiety; Stress; Working memory

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HABITUATION; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPERATURE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEPTIN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, OBESE; OBESITY;

EID: 77955639045     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-010-1858-z     Document Type: Article

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