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[Effect of genotype and day or night time of testing on mice behavior in the light-dark box and the open-field tests].
Zhurnal vysshei nervnoi deiatelnosti imeni I P Pavlova - 1 Jan 2000
Morozova M V, Kulikov A V
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The light-dark box (LDB) and the open-field (OF) tests are widespread experimental models for studying locomotion and anxiety in laboratory rats and mice. The fact that rodents are nocturnal animals and more active at night raises a critical question of whether behavioral experiments carried out in the light phase are methodologically correct. Parameters of behavior of four mouse strains (C57BL/6J, DBA2/J, AKR/J...
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