Neuronal Representation of Social Information in the Medial Amygdala of Awake Behaving Mice

Cell

Volumn 171, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1176-1190.e17

  Li, Ying ^a   Mathis, Alexander ^a   Grewe, Benjamin F ^b   Osterhout, Jessica A ^a   Ahanonu, Biafra ^b   Schnitzer, Mark J ^b   Murthy, Venkatesh N ^a   Dulac, Catherine ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

awake behaving mice; Ca2+ imaging; medial amygdala; microendoscopy; sensory representation; sex specific differences; social behavior; vomeronasal system

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MOUSE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WAKEFULNESS; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; CYTOLOGY; ENDOSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 85032579697     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.10.015     Document Type: Article

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