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ArticleBehavioural brain research2008

Social approach and repetitive behavior in eleven inbred mouse strains.

Sheryl S Moy, Jessica J Nadler, Nancy B Young, Randal J Nonneman, Samantha K Segall, Gabriela M Andrade, Jacqueline N Crawley, Terry R Magnuson

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Article in Behavioural brain research, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 149 papers.

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149 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Sheryl S MoyNeurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center, CB#7146, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States. ssmoy@med.unc.edu
Jessica J Nadler
Nancy B Young
Randal J Nonneman
Samantha K Segall
Gabriela M Andrade
Jacqueline N Crawley
Terry R Magnuson

Funding

UNC MRDD Research CenterP30HD003110 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BELGER, AYSENIL · 1985 to 2012
$28.7M
TREATMENT PROJECTU54MH066418 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI PIVEN, JOSEPH · 2002 to 2006
$7.9M
Animal Models Of Neuropsychiatric DisordersZIAMH002179 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI CRAWLEY, JACQUELINE N · 2009 to 2012
$6.4M
Intramural NIH HHSNICHD NIH HHS P30 HD003110NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD03110NIMH NIH HHS U54 MH066418NIMH NIH HHS U54 MH66418
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Core symptoms of autism include deficits in social interaction, impaired communication, and restricted, repetitive behaviors. The repetitive behavior domain encompasses abnormal motoric stereotypy, an inflexible insistence on sameness, and resistance to change. In recent years, many genetic mouse models of autism and related disorders have been developed, based on candidate genes for disease susceptibility. The present studies are part of an ongoing initiative to develop appropriate behavioral tasks for the evaluation of mouse models relevant to autism. We have previously reported profiles for sociability, preference for social novelty, and resistance to changes in a learned pattern of behavior, as well as other functional domains, for 10 inbred mouse strains of divergent genetic backgrounds. The present studies extend this multi-component behavioral characterization to several additional strains: C58/J, NOD/LtJ, NZB/B1NJ, PL/J, SJL/J, SWR/J, and the wild-derived PERA/EiJ. C58/J, NOD/LtJ, NZB/B1NJ, SJL/J, and PERA/EiJ demonstrated low sociability, measured by time spent in proximity to an unfamiliar conspecific, with 30-60% of mice from these strains showing social avoidance. In the Morris water maze, NZB/B1NJ had a persistent bias for the quadrant where the hidden platform was located during acquisition, even after 9 days of reversal training. A particularly interesting profile was found for C58/J, which had low social preference, poor performance in the T-maze, and overt motoric stereotypy. Overall, this set of tasks and observational methods provides a strategy for evaluating novel mouse models in behavioral domains relevant to the autism phenotype.

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Social BehaviorAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsBehavior, AnimalExploratory BehaviorHabituation, PsychophysiologicMaleMaze LearningMiceMice, Inbred StrainsMovementReversal LearningSpecies SpecificityStereotyped Behavior

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PMID18440079
PMCPMC2441761

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