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[Selection for the predisposition to catalepsy enhances depressive-like traits in mice].
Genetika - 1 Sept 2005
Bazovkina D V, Kulikova A V, Kondaurova E M, Popova N K
Abstract excerpt
Immobility reaction or catalepsy is a natural passive defensive (lurking) behavioral response to the appearance of a predator. Selection for high predisposition to catalepsy has been performed in a population of (CBA x (CBA x AKR)) backcrosses of the crossing between mouse lines sensitive and resistant to catalepsy (VBA and AKR, respectively). A rapid increase in the number of animals with catalepsy has been...
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