mouse_activity {Biostatistics} | R Documentation |
Locomotor activity in offspring of mice exposed to nicotine
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)
[Package Biostatistics version 1.0.4 Index]