Oxytocin and estrogen receptor α and β knockout mice provide discriminably different odor cues in behavioral assays

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 189-195

  Kavaliers, M ^a,b   Agmo A ^b,c   Choleris, E ^b,d   Gustafsson, J A ^e   Korach, K S ^a   Muglia, L J ^b   Pfaff, D W ^b   Ogawa, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Avoidance; Mate choice; Odor choice; Social behavior; Social recognition

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; URINE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OXYTOCIN; PHEROMONES; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3442897175     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183x.2004.00068.x     Document Type: Article

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