Differences in aggressive behavior and in the mesocorticolimbic DA system between A/J and BALB/cJ mice

Synapse

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 715-724

  Couppis, Maria H ^a   Kennedy, Craig H ^b,c   Stanwood, Gregg D ^b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A J; Aggression; Autoradiography; BALB cJ; Nucleus accumbens; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50249107892     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20545     Document Type: Article

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