Eco-HAB as a fully automated and ecologically relevant assessment of social impairments in mouse models of autism

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue OCTOBER2016, 2016, Pages

  Puścian, Alicja ^a   Łęski, Szymon ^a   Kasprowicz, Grzegorz ^b,c   Winiarski, Maciej ^a   Borowska, Joanna ^a   Nikolaev, Tomasz ^a   Boguszewski, Paweł M ^a   Lipp, Hans Peter ^d,e   Knapska, Ewelina ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; ECOLOGY; ETHOLOGY; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS;

EID: 84994666636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.19532     Document Type: Article

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