Dopamine D2 receptors in the nucleus accumbens are important for social attachment in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 173-183

  Gingrich, Brenden ^b   Liu, Yan ^b   Cascio, Carissa ^b   Wang, Zuoxin ^b   Insel, Thomas R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; MATING; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0034059982     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.1.173     Document Type: Article

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