A Cortical Circuit for Sexually Dimorphic Oxytocin-Dependent Anxiety Behaviors

Cell

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 60-72.e11

  Li, Kun ^a   Nakajima, Miho ^a   Ibañez Tallon, Ines ^a   Heintz, Nathaniel ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE 1; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SOMATOSTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR-BINDING PROTEIN; OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRENT CLAMP TECHNIQUE; DIESTRUS; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ESTRUS; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; OPTOGENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION TEST; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; METABOLISM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARRIER PROTEINS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; INTERNEURONS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICE; OXYTOCIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84988584482     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.067     Document Type: Article

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