Behavioral characterization in a comprehensive mouse test battery reveals motor and sensory impairments in growth-associated protein-43 null mutant mice

Neuroscience

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 563-574

  Metz, G A ^a,b   Schwab, M E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

development; knock out mice; locomotion; plasticity; reflex; sensorimotor function

Indexed keywords

NEUROMODULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFLEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SMELLING; TOUCH; VISION; WILD TYPE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAP-43 PROTEIN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; SENSATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 8444239335     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.07.053     Document Type: Article

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