Low inborn anxiety correlates with high intermale aggression: Link to ACTH response and neuronal activation of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-19

  Veenema, Alexa H ^a   Torner, Luz ^a   Blume, Annegret ^a   Beiderbeck, Daniela I ^a   Neumann, Inga D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACTH; Aggression; Anxiety; c Fos; Corticosterone; HAB; LAB; Resident intruder; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL ACTIVATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33751501429     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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