Effects of Bax gene deletion on social behaviors and neural response to olfactory cues in mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1492-1499

  Holmes, Melissa M ^a   Niel, Lee ^b   Anyan, Jeff J ^a   Griffith, Andrew T ^a   Monks, D Ashley ^a   Forger, Nancy G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

c Fos; Cell death; Olfactory preference; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTEROVENTRAL PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BAX GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY PREFERENCE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; POSTERODORSAL MEDIAL AMYGDALA; PRINCIPAL NUCLEUS OF THE BED NUCLEUS OF THE STRIA TERMINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELLING; SOCIAL APPROACH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL RECOGNITION; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL DEATH; CUES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80055058462     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07881.x     Document Type: Article

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