Limbic brain activation for maternal acoustic perception and responding is different in mothers and virgin female mice

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 62-71

  Geissler, Diana B ^a   Sabine Schmidt, H ^a   Ehret, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

C FOS immunocytochemistry; Emotional sound processing; Limbic system; Maternal behavior; Mouse pup care; Sound recognition; Ultrasound perception

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RECOGNITION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIA TERMINALIS; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; HEARING; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REACTION TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84875813400     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: 17697115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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