Sexually dimorphic effects of a prenatal immune challenge on social play and vasopressin expression in juvenile rats

Biology of Sex Differences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Taylor, Patrick V ^a   Veenema, Alexa H ^b   Paul, Matthew J ^a   Bredewold, Remco ^b   Isaacs, Stephanie ^a   De Vries, Geert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Development; Lipopolysaccharides; Medial amygdaloid nucleus; Play behavior; Prenatal; SDN POA; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876377740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20426410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2042-6410-3-15     Document Type: Article

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