Control of intermale aggression by medial prefrontal cortex activation in the mouse

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Takahashi, Aki ^a,b   Nagayasu, Kazuki ^c,d   Nishitani, Naoya ^d   Kaneko, Shuji ^d   Koide, Tsuyoshi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; INTERMALE AGGRESSION; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETIC SILENCING; OPTOGENETICS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VIROLOGY;

PHOTOPROTEIN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; OPTOGENETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84899684194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094657.g001     Document Type: Article

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