Article
Behavioural assessment of mice lacking D1A dopamine receptors.
Neuroscience - 1 Sept 1998
Smith D R, Striplin C D, Geller A M, Mailman R B, Drago J, Lawler C P, Gallagher M
Abstract excerpt
Dopamine D1A receptor-deficient mice were assessed in a wide variety of tasks chosen to reflect the diverse roles of this receptor subtype in behavioural regulation. The protocol included examination of exploration and locomotor activity in an open field, a test of sensorimotor orienting, both pl...
Topics
- Animals
- Association Learning
- Crosses, Genetic
- Cues
- Discrimination, Psychological
- Evoked Potentials, Visual
- Exploratory Behavior
- Female
- Genotype
- Heterozygote
- Homozygote
- Male
- Maze Learning
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Motor Activity
- Orientation