Impairment of interstrain social recognition during territorial aggressive behavior in oxytocin receptor-null mice

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 90, Issue , 2015, Pages 90-94

  Hattori, Tatsuya ^a   Kanno, Kouta ^a   Nagasawa, Miho ^a   Nishimori, Katsuhiko ^b   Mogi, Kazutaka ^a   Kikusui, Takefumi ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Interstrain recognition; Oxytocin; Oxytocin receptor

Indexed keywords

DNA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; OXTR PROTEIN, MOUSE;

A J MOUSE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; FEMALE; INTERGROUP BIAS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL RECOGNITION TEST; TERRITORIALITY; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; MALE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84922689675     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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