FOS and FOSB expression in the medial preoptic nucleus pars compacta of maternally active C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice

Brain Research

Volumn 952, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 170-175

  Mathieson, W B ^a,c   Wilkinson, Michael ^b   Brown, Richard E ^b   Bond, Tamara L Y ^b   Taylor, Sean W ^b   Neumann, Paul E ^b  

^a MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OKANAGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

FOS; FOSB; Maternal behavior; Medial preoptic area

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOSB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOTHER; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENES, FOS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS;

EID: 0037131066     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03078-0     Document Type: Article

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