Social Investigation in a Memory Task Relates to Natural Variation in Septal Expression of Oxytocin Receptor and Vasopressin Receptor 1a in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 979-991

  Ophir, Alexander G ^a   Zheng, Da Jiang ^b   Eans, Shainnel ^b   Phelps, Steven M ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

individual differences; lateral septum; prairie vole; social behavior network; social recognition

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN V1A RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; VOLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEPTUM OF BRAIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70350094553     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016663     Document Type: Article

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