Sex-dependent novelty response in neurexin-1α mutant mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Laarakker, Marijke C ^a   Reinders, Niels R ^a   Bruining, Hilgo ^a   Ophoff, Roel A ^a,b   Kas, Martien J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUREXIN 1ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NRXN1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HABITUATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NRXN1ALPHA GENE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; SEX DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

MUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PHENOTYPE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84856878562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031503     Document Type: Article

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