Social experience induces sex-specific fos expression in the amygdala of the juvenile rat

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 154-161

  Weathington, Jill M ^a   Strahan, J Alex ^a   Cooke, Bradley M ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Central amygdala; Child abuse; Early life adversity; Immediate early gene; Medial amygdala; Puberty; Sex differences; Social defeat; Social stress

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRESS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROANATOMY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84864297991     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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