Display of individuality in avoidance behavior and risk assessment of inbred mice

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Hager, Torben ^a,b,c   Jansen, René F ^b   Pieneman, Anton W ^b   Manivannan, Suriya N ^d   Golani, Ilan ^e   van der Sluis, Sophie ^c   Smit, August B ^b   Verhage, Matthijs ^b,c   Stiedl, Oliver ^b  

^a Sylics BV   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d BIOBSERVE GmbH   (Germany)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Animal model; Behavioral phenotyping; Fear conditioning; Individuality; Learning; Memory; Passive avoidance; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; INDIVIDUALITY; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REINFORCEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84908160622     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00314     Document Type: Article

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