Litter environment affects behavior and brain metabolic activity of adult knockout mice
In mammals, the formative environment for social and anxiety-related behaviors is the family unit; in the case of rodents, this is the litter and the mother-young bond. A deciding factor in this environment is the sex ratio of the litter and, in the case of mice lacking functional copies of gene(s),...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2009-08-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.08.012.2009/full |