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A Behavioral Assay for Investigating the Role of Spatial Memory During Instinctive Defense in Mice
Ruben Vale 1,2, Dominic Evans 1,2, Tiago Branco 1,2
1UCL Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, 2MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

This protocol describes a behavioral assay, based on the Barnes maze test, to study how instinctive defensive actions are modified by the knowledge of spatial environment.

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