siRNA silencing of estrogen receptor-α expression specifically in medial preoptic area neurons abolishes maternal care in female mice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 16324-16329

  Ribeiro, Ana C ^a,b   Musatov, Sergei ^c   Shteyler, Anna ^a   Simanduyev, Serge ^a   Arrieta Cruz, Isabel ^a   Ogawa, Sonoko ^d   Pfaff, Donald W ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Natural Sciences   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intact; Ovariectomized; Semi natural environment; shRNA

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS VECTOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; LICKING; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84867048395     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214094109     Document Type: Article

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