Brain serotonin determines maternal behavior and offspring survival

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 579-591

  Angoa Perez M ^a,b   Kane, M J ^a,b   Sykes, C E ^a,b   Perrine, S A ^b   Church, M W ^c,d   Kuhn, D M ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences ^*  (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal behavior; Pup survival; Serotonin; TPH2; TPH2 knockout

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE 2; TPH2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANNIBALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEARING; LACTATION; LATENT PERIOD; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NURSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REARING; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SMELLING; SURVIVAL; WEANING; WEIGHT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEROTONIN; THINNESS; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 84907813885     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12159     Document Type: Article

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