Medial preoptic lesions disrupt parental behavior in both male and female California mice (Peromyscus californicus)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 968-975

  Lee, Anna W ^a   Brown, Richard E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME;

EID: 0036897368     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.116.6.968     Document Type: Article

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