Bi-Parental Care Contributes to Sexually Dimorphic Neural Cell Genesis in the Adult Mammalian Brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Mak, Gloria K ^a   Antle, Michael C ^a   Dyck, Richard H ^a   Weiss, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CYTOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

MAMMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGENESIS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84877069497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062701     Document Type: Article

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