Gene-environment interaction influences anxiety-like behavior in ethologically based mouse models

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-105

  Post, Antonia M ^a   Weyers, Peter ^a   Holzer, Peter ^b   Painsipp, Evelin ^b   Pauli, Paul ^a   Wultsch, Thomas ^a   Reif, Andreas ^a   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Avoidance; BALB c; C57BL 6; Elevated Plus Maze; Lighting condition; Open Field

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; ILLUMINATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78649949477     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.11.031     Document Type: Article

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