mouse_activity: Locomotor activity in offspring of mice exposed to nicotine

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Description

Data on the spontaneous locomotor activity of the F1 offspring of nicotine exposed or control males mated with unexposed females over a 12 hour period.

Usage

data("mouse_activity")

Format

A data frame with 54 observations on the following 3 variables.

Treatment

Parental treatment

Sex

Sex of the animal in question

SLA

Spontaneous locomotor activity (the count of all the recorded times an infra-red beam was broken during the 12-hour period)

Source

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2006497

References

McCarthy, D.M., Morgan, T.J., Jr, Lowe, S.E., Williamson, M.J., Spencer, T.J., Biederman, J. & Bhide, P.G. (2018) Nicotine exposure of male mice produces behavioral impairment in multiple generations of descendants. PLoS biology, 16, e2006497.

Examples

data(mouse_activity)
str(mouse_activity)

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