Female-soiled bedding induced Fos immunoreactivity in the ventral part of the premammillary nucleus (PMv) of the male mouse

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 257-261

  Yokosuka, Makoto ^a   Matsuoka, Masato ^b   Ohtani Kaneko, Ritsuko ^a   Iigo, Masayuki ^a   Hara, Masayuki ^a   Hirata, Kazuaki ^a   Ichikawa, Masumi ^b  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metoropolitan Inst N   (Japan)

Author keywords

Male aggressive behavior; Male mating behavior; Medial amygdaloid nucleus; Pheromone; Premammillary nucleus

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COPULATION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033430169     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(99)00160-2     Document Type: Article

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