Object recognition test in mice

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2531-2537

  Leger, Marianne ^a   Quiedeville, Anne ^a   Bouet, Valentine ^a   Haelewyn, Benoît ^a   Boulouard, Michel ^a   Schumann Bard, Pascale ^a   Freret, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; DEFECATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; HABITUATION; MICTURITION; NEOPHOBIA; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; VISION TEST; VISUAL MEMORY;

MUS;

ANIMALS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; MICE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84888329298     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.155     Document Type: Article

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