BDNF-restricted knockout mice as an animal model for aggression

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 365-374

  Ito, W ^a   Chehab, M ^a   Thakur, S ^a   Li, J ^a   Morozov, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Animal model; BDNF; Cre recombinase; Knockout

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CRE RECOMBINASE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 79953279337     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00676.x     Document Type: Article

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