Olfactory classical conditioning in neonatal mouse pups using thermal stimuli

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 250-256

  Bollen, Bieke ^a,b   Matrot, Boris ^b,c   Ramanantsoa, Nelina ^b,c   Van den Bergh, Omer ^a   D'Hooge, Rudi ^a   Gallego, Jorge ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Mice; Neonatal; Odor preference; Phenotyping; Thermotaxis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; COLD EXPOSURE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; SMELL;

EID: 84856565949     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.12.030     Document Type: Article

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