Behavioral and cognitive profile of mice with high and low exploratory phenotypes.

Abstract excerpt

Temperament is the heritable and relatively stable pattern of basic emotions, such as fear and anger. We explored behavioral features in mice to select distinct phenotypes with extremes of temperament. In a new environment (open-field) with a central object, two groups of 15 mice from 79 screened were separated according to high or low exploration of the object to compose the high and low exploratory groups,...

Topics

• Aggression
• Analysis of Variance
• Animals
• Avoidance Learning
• Behavior, Animal
• Cognition
• Exploratory Behavior
• Hindlimb Suspension
• Male
• Maze Learning
• Mice