Functional integrity of the habenula is necessary for social play behaviour in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3465-3475

  van Kerkhof, Linda W M ^a   Damsteegt, Ruth ^a   Trezza, Viviana ^a,b   Voorn, Pieter ^c   Vanderschuren, Louk J M J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; C fos; Habenula; Social behaviour; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; MUSCIMOL; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABENULA; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADOLESCENCE; C-FOS; HABENULA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; HABENULA; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 84887820013     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12353     Document Type: Article

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