Behavioral phenotyping of juvenile long-evans and sprague-dawley rats: Implications for preclinical models of autism spectrum disorders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Ku, Katherine M ^a   Weir, Ruth K ^a   Silverman, Jill L ^a,b   Berman, Robert F ^a   Bauman, Melissa D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIORAL PHENOTYPING; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HIGH THROUGHPUT BEHAVIORAL PHENOTYPING; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RAT; SENSORY GATING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIALIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEREOTYPY;

ANIMALS; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY GATING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84978148550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158150     Document Type: Article

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