Analysis of transcriptional levels of the oxytocin receptor in different areas of the central nervous system and behaviors in high and low licking rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 176-184

  Ruthschilling, Carina Anicet ^a   Albiero, Gabriela ^a   Lazzari, Virgínia Meneghini ^a   Becker, Roberta Oriques ^a   de Moura, Ana Carolina ^a   Lucion, Aldo Bolten ^b   Almeida, Silvana ^a   Veiga, Ana Beatriz Gorini da ^a   Giovenardi, Márcia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CIÊNCIAS DA SAÚDE DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Emotional behavior; Lactating female; Licking grooming; Maternal behavior; Oxytocin receptor; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LICKING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY BULB; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RAT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROOMING; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN;

EID: 84855173843     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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