Trpc2-deficient lactating mice exhibit altered brain and behavioral responses to bedding stimuli

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 347-353

  Hasen, Nina S ^a   Gammie, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Defensive burying; Maternal; Pheromone; Trpc2; Vomeronasal

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; PROTEIN FOS; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 2;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BED; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LACTATION; MALE; MOUSE; NESTING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WILD TYPE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEDDING AND LINENS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PHEROMONES; SMELL; TRPC CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 78650415349     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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