The effects of exogenous melatonin and melatonin receptor blockade on aggression and estrogen-dependent gene expression in male California mice (Peromyscus californicus)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 86-91

  Laredo, Sarah A ^a,b   Orr, Veronica N ^a   McMackin, Marissa Z ^a,b   Trainor, Brian C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; C Fos; Estrogen receptor; Medial preoptic area; Melatonin; Oxytocin receptor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LETROZOLE; LUZINDOLE; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; NITRILE; PROTEIN C FOS; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; TRYPTAMINE DERIVATIVE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIA TERMINALIS; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MELATONIN; NITRILES; PEROMYSCUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; TRIAZOLES; TRYPTAMINES;

EID: 84894333603     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.01.039     Document Type: Article

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