Plasticity in the maternal circuit: Effects of maternal experience on Fos-lir in hypothalamic, limbic, and cortical structures in the postpartum rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 567-582

  Fleming, Alison S ^a   Korsmit, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PREOPTIC AREA; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS;

EID: 0029920251     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.3.567     Document Type: Article

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