Are you real? Visual simulation of social housing by mirror image stimulation in single housed mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 191-198

  Fuss, Johannes ^a   Richter, S Helene ^a   Steinle, Jörg ^a   Deubert, Gerald ^a   Hellweg, Rainer ^b   Gass, Peter ^a  

^a MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Exploration; Mice; Mirrors; Single housing

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BARRIER TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK LIGHT BOX TEST; DEPRESSION; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; HOLEBOARD TEST; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOVEL CAGE TEST; OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; PLACE PREFERENCE; PLACE PREFERENCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 84873500842     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.01.015     Document Type: Article

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