Effects of neural androgen receptor disruption on aggressive behavior, arginine vasopressin and galanin systems in the bed nucleus of stria terminalis and lateral septum

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 218-225

  Marie Luce, Clarisse ^a,b,c   Raskin, Kalina ^a,b,c   Bolborea, Matei ^d,e   Monin, Marion ^a,b,c   Picot, Marie ^a,b,c   Mhaouty Kodja, Sakina ^a,b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives UPR3212   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Androgen receptor; Arginine vasopressin; Galanin; Nervous system; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ARGIPRESSIN; GALANIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPHYSIN; TESTOSTERONE; VASOPRESSIN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; STRIA TERMINALIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84878954738     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.03.031     Document Type: Article

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