Litter environment affects behavior and brain metabolic activity of adult knockout mice

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2009, Pages

  Crews, David ^a   Rushworth, David ^a   Gonzalez Lima, Francisco ^a   Ogawa, Sonoko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aggression; Genotype differences; Life history; Sex differences; Sibling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871286906     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.08.012.2009     Document Type: Article

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