Serotonin signaling in the brain of adult female mice is required for sexual preference

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9968-9973

  Zhang, Shasha ^a,b   Liu, Yan ^a,b   Rao, Yi ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Neurotransmitter; Sexual behaviors; Tph2 knockout

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEXUAL PREFERENCE; SEXUALITY;

NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEXUAL BEHAVIORS; TPH2 KNOCKOUT;

5-HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENITALIA; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ODORS; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; SEROTONIN; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

MUS;

EID: 84878974699     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220712110     Document Type: Article

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