Suppression of serotonin neuron firing increases aggression in mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 8678-8688

  Audero, Enrica ^a,c   Mlinar, Boris ^b   Baccini, Gilda ^b   Skachokova, Zhiva K ^a   Corradetti, Renato ^b   Gross, Cornelius ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

8-HYDROXY-2-(DI-N-PROPYLAMINO)TETRALIN; ACTION POTENTIALS; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHERMIA; IODINE ISOTOPES; LOCOMOTION; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PIPERAZINES; PYRIDINES; RAPHE NUCLEI; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1A; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGENTS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR AGONISTS; TIME FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 84877778070     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2067-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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