Optimization of apparatus design and behavioral measures for the assessment of visuo-spatial learning and memory of mice on the Barnes maze

Learning and Memory

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 85-96

  O'Leary, Timothy P ^a   Brown, Richard E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BARNES MAZE; EFFECT SIZE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LATENT PERIOD; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL LEARNING; TIME; TRAINING;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CUES; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84874046914     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.028076.112     Document Type: Article

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