Cofilin-1: A Modulator of Anxiety in Mice

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Goodson, Martin ^a   Rust, Marco B ^b   Witke, Walter ^c   Bannerman, David ^d   Mott, Richard ^a   Ponting, Chris P ^d   Flint, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR; COFILIN 1;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COFILIN 1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRAIT; MALE; MOUSE; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; COFILIN 1; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROSENCEPHALON; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84868087341     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002970     Document Type: Article

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