The behavioral assessment of sensorimotor processes in the mouse: Acoustic startle, locomotor activity, rotarod, and beam walking

Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 27-49

  Fox, Gerard B ^a   Curzon, Peter ^a   Decker, Michael W ^a  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

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