Remarkable Changes in Behavior and Physiology of Laboratory Mice after the Massive 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Yanai, Shuichi ^a   Semba, Yuki ^a   Endo, Shogo ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EARTHQUAKE; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEAR; FOOD INTAKE; FREEZING; JAPAN; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SWIMMING; VELOCITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; EARTHQUAKES; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; JAPAN; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; TSUNAMIS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84866010142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044475     Document Type: Article

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