Brown2: Visual ability and spatial, motor and olfactory learning and memory in 14 inbred strains of mice (2004)

References   (chronological)

1.   Wong AA, Brown RE. Visual detection, pattern discrimination and visual acuity in 14 strains of mice. Genes Brain Behav. 2006 Jul;5(5):389-403.   PubMed 16879633  

2.   Brown RE, Wong AA. The influence of visual ability on learning and memory performance in 13 strains of mice. Learn Mem. 2007 Mar 8;14(3):134-44. Print 2007 Mar.   PubMed 17351136     FullText

3.   O'Leary TP, Savoie V, Brown RE. Learning, memory and search strategies of inbred mouse strains with different visual abilities in the Barnes maze. Behav Brain Res. 2011 Jan 20;216(2):531-42. Epub 2010 Aug 27.   PubMed 20801160  


         
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• Brown2 supplementary data
Investigators Richard E Brown       Dalhousie University,  Halifax, Nova Scotia CANADA
Heather M Schellinck       Dalhousie University,  Halifax, Nova Scotia CANADA
Rhian K Gunn       Dalhousie University,  Halifax, Nova Scotia CANADA
Aimee A Wong       Dalhousie University,  Halifax, Nova Scotia CANADA
Timothy P O'Leary       Dalhousie University,  Halifax, Nova Scotia CANADA
Participants Currie L, Hoffman N, Savoie V
ContactRichard E Brown     rebrown@dal.ca     Lab web site
AcknowledgementsFunding provided by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC 7441); Generous funds from AstraZeneca R&D Boston were used to defray the cost of mice through the Mouse Phenome Project.
Project type Phenotype strain survey data set
MPD identifiersBrown2     MPD:225
Data changelog No updates/corrections.       Initial release date: 02/2008.
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Procedures conducted:
• Barnes circular maze  Spatial learning and memory.
• Morris water maze  Spatial learning and memory.
• rotarod  Latency to fall from accelerating rotarod. 7 day trials.
• visual water box  Spatial learning and memory.
• olfactory discrimination task  Olfactory-related learning and memory.

Mice: inbred   14 strains   ♀♂   age 10-18wks   1 experimental group