Functional Deficits in Pak5, Pak6 and Pak5/Pak6 Knockout Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Furnari, Melody A ^a   Jobes, Michelle L ^a   Nekrasova, Tanya ^b   Minden, Audrey ^b   Wagner, George C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE 5; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; ROTAROD TEST; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILD TYPE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; P21-ACTIVATED KINASES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

MUS;

EID: 84875972658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061321     Document Type: Article

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