Reproductive experience and activation of maternal memory

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 676-686

  Scanlan, Victoria F ^a   Byrnes, Elizabeth M ^a   Bridges, Robert S ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; c Fos immunohistochemistry; Elevated plus maze; Maternal experience; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOME; MALE; MEMORY; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; NULLIPARA; PARITY; PRIMIPARA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPRODUCTION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745888457     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.3.676     Document Type: Article

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