VPAC receptor signaling modulates grouping behavior and social responses to contextual novelty in a gregarious finch: A role for a putative prefrontal cortex homologue

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 511-518

  Kingsbury, Marcy A ^a   Miller, Katherine M ^a   Goodson, James L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Anxiety like behavior; Gregariousness; Social approach; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide; Zebra finches

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE ANTAGONIST; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TELENCEPHALON;

AFFILIATION; ANXIETY-LIKE BEHAVIOR; GREGARIOUSNESS; SOCIAL APPROACH; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; ZEBRA FINCHES;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; NEUROTENSIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTORS, VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 84884150916     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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