Neural correlates of scent marking behavior in C57BL/6J mice: detection and recognition of a social stimulus

Neuroscience

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 914-923

  Borelli, K G ^a,c,d   Blanchard, D C ^a,b   Javier, L K ^a   Defensor, E B ^a   Brandao M L ^c,d   Blanchard, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Instituto de Neurociencias and Comportamento INeC   (Brazil)

Author keywords

amygdala; discrimination of social novelty; lateral septum; medial prefrontal cortex; olfactory detection of conspecifics; social memory

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; C57BL 6 MOUSE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FOREBRAIN; HABITUATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SMELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; ODORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67949088079     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.05.047     Document Type: Article

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