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Maternal Nesting
July 7, 2019
Definition Maternal nesting is the behavior that mother mice carry out when creating a shelter to protect their soon-to-be newborns. In contrast to…
A Rodent Model for Human Adolescence
July 4, 2019
Introduction Adolescence is for all of us, a very important and defining period of our lives. It is overall defined as the transitional period in which the…
Will the animal's age influence the test results?
June 28, 2019
Age is a significant deciding factor in many behavioral tests. In certain cases, behaviors that are present early in life may not be present later, while the…
What should the water temperature be (if water is used in the apparatus)?
June 24, 2019
Water-based behavioral tasks, like any environmentally specific experiment, are influenced by such factors as light and temperature. Given that experimental…
Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Behavioral Consequences of In Utero Exposure
June 15, 2019
Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in the world and its usage continues to grow in tandem with a widespread reevaluation of its legal status and…
Operant Conditioning: Enhancement by Drugs
June 14, 2019
Operant conditioning, while a relatively simple task, involves a variety of brain regions, neurotransmitter systems, and receptors in the processes of…
Cued Fear Conditioning
June 5, 2019
Cued fear conditioning is a form of associative learning[1] in which an animal is trained to associate a cue (often a sound) with a fear-inducing stimulation…
Contextual Fear Conditioning
May 30, 2019
Contextual fear conditioning is an associative learning test in which a test subject, most often a mouse or rat, learns to associate an environment (context)…
B6.129X1-Snap25tm1Mcw/J Mouse Strain
May 30, 2019
Overview B6.129X1-Snap25tm1Mcw/J, also known as SNAP-25 KO, is a strain of mouse model in which the SNAP-25 gene has been rendered non-functional through…
Rodent Models of Addiction
May 27, 2019
Introduction What is Drug Addiction? Despite the various mechanisms of action of the many abusable drugs, drug addiction looks largely the same from a…
