Anxiety, hyperactivity and stereotypy in a zebrafish model of fragile X syndrome and autism spectrum disorder

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 40-49

  Kim, Lily ^a,c   He, Lucy ^a,d   Maaswinkel, Hans ^a   Zhu, Liqun ^a   Sirotkin, Howard ^b   Weng, Wei ^a  

^a Sr Dir Discovery Tumor Prog   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stuyvesant High School   (United States)

^d Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Autism spectrum disorder; Fragile X syndrome; Hyperactivity; Stereotypy; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FMR1 PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FMR1 GENE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HABITUATION; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPOACTIVITY; MALE; MUTANT; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; STEREOTYPY; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CATALEPSY; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE MODEL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANXIETY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84908128999     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: 18784216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2014.03.007     Document Type: Article

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