Away game or home match: The influence of venue and serotonin transporter genotype on the display of offensive aggression

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 291-301

  Jansen, Friederike ^a   Heiming, Rebecca S ^a   Kloke, Vanessa ^a   Kaiser, Sylvia ^a   Palme, Rupert ^b   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^c   Sachser, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 HTT; Anxiety; Cost benefit ratio; Gene environment interaction; Genotype; Risk profile

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERRITORIALITY; WILD TYPE;

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH STATUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 79952698742     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.01.029     Document Type: Article

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