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COLORcation: A new application to phenotype exploratory behavior models of anxiety in mice.
Journal of neuroscience methods - 1 Sept 2016
Dagan Shachar Y, Tsoory Michael M, Fainzilber Mike, Panayotis Nicolas
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BACKGROUND: Behavioral analyses in rodents have successfully delineated the function of many genes and signaling pathways in the brain. Behavioral testing uses highly defined experimental conditions to identify abnormalities in a given mouse strain or genotype. The open field (OF) is widely used to assess both locomotion and anxiety in rodents. In this test, the more a mouse explores and spend time in the center...
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