Olfactory cues increase avoidance behavior and induce Fos expression in the amygdala, hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of socially defeated mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 256, Issue , 2013, Pages 188-196

  Bourne, A R ^a   Mohan, G ^a   Stone, M F ^a   Pham, M Q ^a   Schultz, C R ^a   Meyerhoff, J L ^a   Lumley, L A ^a  

^a US ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL DEFENSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Basolateral amygdala; Fos; Hippocampus; Prefrontal cortex; Social stress

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DELTA FOSB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOSB; FOSB PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMELLING; SOCIAL DEFEAT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STRESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TIME;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883268240     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.08.020     Document Type: Article

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