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ArticlePhysiology & behavior2023

Diazepam effects on anxiety-related defensive behavior of male and female high and low open-field activity inbred mouse strains.

Erika A Mehrhoff, Winona C Booher, Julianna Hutchinson, Grace Schumacher, Curtis Borski, Christopher A Lowry, Charles A Hoeffer, Marissa A Ehringer

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Article in Physiology & behavior, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Erika A MehrhoffDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States; Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
Winona C BooherDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States; Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States; Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States.
Julianna HutchinsonDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
Grace SchumacherDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
Curtis BorskiDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States; Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
Christopher A LowryDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
Charles A HoefferDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States; Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
Marissa A EhringerDepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States; Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States. Electronic address: marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu.
University of Colorado Boulder · US

Funding

Identification of genes and genetic networks contributing to opioid use disorder traits in the Hybrid Rat Diversity PanelU01DA051937 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI BACHTELL, RYAN K, EHRINGER, MARISSA A · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
Role of glial expression in nicotine behaviors for genes identified through human GWASR21DA055781 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI EHRINGER, MARISSA A, HOEFFER, CHARLES A · 2022 to 2023
$343k
NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA055781NIDA NIH HHS U01 DA051937
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Open-field activity is a commonly used measure of anxiety-related behavior in rodents. The inbred High and Low Activity strains of mice, selected for extreme differences in open-field activity, have been used as a genetic model of anxiety-related behaviors. These selected strains have been thoroughly studied through extensive behavioral testing, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, whole-genome sequencing, and RNA sequencing, to uncover phenotypic and genotypic differences related to anxiety-related behavior. However, the effects of anxiolytic drugs on anxiety-related behavior in these strains have not been studied previously. This study allowed us to expand on previous findings to further characterize the anxiety-related behavior of these unique strains, using an anxiolytic drug. The goal of this study was to determine whether the treatment of adult male and female High Activity (low anxiety) and Low Activity (high anxiety) mice with diazepam, an agonist at the benzodiazepine allosteric site on the GABA

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Anti-Anxiety AgentsAnxietyDiazepamAnimalsBehavior, AnimalDisease Models, AnimalFemaleMaleMiceMice, Inbred StrainsOpen Field TestSpecies SpecificityAnti-Anxiety AgentsDiazepamAnxietyAnxiolyticDiazepamElevated plus-mazeFearOpen-field test

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PMID37689380
PMCPMC11131367
OpenAlexW4386574172

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