Deletion of the forebrain mineralocorticoid receptor impairs social discrimination and decision-making in male, but not in female mice

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  ter Horst, Judith P ^a,b   van der Mark, Maaike ^c   Kentrop, Jiska ^c   Arp, Marit ^a   van der Veen, Rixt ^d   de Kloet, E Ronald ^c   Oitzl, Melly S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Knockout mice; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Sex; Social approach; Social discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893533193     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00026     Document Type: Article

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