Sexual attraction enhances glutamate transmission in mammalian anterior cingulate cortex

Molecular Brain

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Wu, Long Jun ^a   Kim, Susan S ^a   Li, Xiangyao ^a   Zhang, Fuxing ^a   Zhuo, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN C FOS; SIALIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SEXUAL ATTRACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAMINIDASE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 66249093177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17566606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-6606-2-9     Document Type: Article

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