Capturing and Manipulating Activated Neuronal Ensembles with CANE Delineates a Hypothalamic Social-Fear Circuit

Neuron

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 739-753

  Sakurai, Katsuyasu ^a   Zhao, Shengli ^a   Takatoh, Jun ^a   Rodriguez, Erica ^a   Lu, Jinghao ^a   Leavitt, Andrew D ^b   Fu, Min ^a   Han, Bao Xia ^a   Wang, Fan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

activity dependent; aggression; CANE; Fos; functional neural circuit; hypothalamus; social fear; VMHvl

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AXON; CAPTURING ACTIVATED NEURONAL ENSEMBLE; CELL LABELING; CELL MANIPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL FEAR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CYTOLOGY; GENE TARGETING; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

PROTEIN C FOS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEAR; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; OPTOGENETICS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84997498774     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.10.015     Document Type: Article

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