Oxytocin receptor knockout mice display deficits in the expression of autism-related behaviors

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 436-444

  Pobbe, Roger L H ^a   Pearson, Brandon L ^a   Defensor, Erwin B ^a   Bolivar, Valerie J ^b,c   Young, W Scott ^d   Lee, Heon Jin ^e   Blanchard, D Caroline ^a,f   Blanchard, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Mouse models; Oxytocin receptor; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WILD TYPE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GROOMING; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; URINE;

EID: 84858748792     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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