Brain mechanisms involved in predatory aggression are activated in a laboratory model of violent intra-specific aggression

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1744-1753

  Tulogdi, Aron ^a   Toth, Mate ^a   Halasz, Jozsef ^a   Mikics, Eva ^a   Fuzesi, Tamas ^a   Haller, Jozsef ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Affective; Central amygdala; Hypothalamus; Periaqueductal gray; Predatory; Rat

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADRENALECTOMY; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN REGION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADRENALECTOMY; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEURONS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78349289206     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07429.x     Document Type: Article

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