Aggressive experience increases dendritic spine density within the nucleus accumbens core in female syrian hamsters

Neuroscience

Volumn 227, Issue , 2012, Pages 163-169

  Staffend, N A ^a   Meisel, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caudate; Dendritic morphology; Nucleus accumbens; Social behavior; Spine density; Spine morphology

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

AGGRESSION; AMINO ACIDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CRICETINAE; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867762891     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.09.064     Document Type: Article

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