Genes showing altered expression in the medial preoptic area in the highly social maternal phenotype are related to autism and other disorders with social deficits

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Driessen, Terri M ^a   Eisinger, Brian E ^a   Zhao, Changjiu ^a   Stevenson, Sharon A ^a   Saul, Michael C ^a   Gammie, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Bipolar disorder; CNS development; Depression; Medial preoptic area; Modular Single Set Enrichment Test (MSET); Postpartum females; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; AUTISM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PREOPTIC AREA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOMARKERS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PREOPTIC AREA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS;

EID: 84892390444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-15-11     Document Type: Article

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