Esr1+ cells in the ventromedial hypothalamus control female aggression

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1580-1590

  Hashikawa, Koichi ^a   Hashikawa, Yoshiko ^a   Tremblay, Robin ^a   Zhang, Jiaxing ^b   Feng, James E ^a   Sabol, Alexander ^a   Piper, Walter T ^c   Lee, Hyosang ^d   Rudy, Bernardo ^a   Lin, Dayu ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIGHTING; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ZONA INCERTA; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 85032441472     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4644     Document Type: Article

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