Hormonal gain control of a medial preoptic area social reward circuit

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 449-458

  McHenry, Jenna A ^a   Otis, James M ^a   Rossi, Mark A ^a   Robinson, J Elliott ^b   Kosyk, Oksana ^a   Miller, Noah W ^a   McElligott, Zoe A ^a   Budygin, Evgeny A ^a,c,d   Rubinow, David R ^a   Stuber, Garret D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; ESTRADIOL; NEUROTENSIN; PROGESTERONE; DOPAMINE; FRAGRANCE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHEMICAL CUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PLACE PREFERENCE; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; REINFORCEMENT; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VENTRAL STRIATUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPTIC AREA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROTENSIN; ODORANTS; PREOPTIC AREA; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 85010966257     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4487     Document Type: Article

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