A Hypothalamic Midbrain Pathway Essential for Driving Maternal Behaviors

Neuron

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 192-207.e10

  Fang, Yi Ya ^a   Yamaguchi, Takashi ^a   Song, Soomin C ^a   Tritsch, Nicolas X ^a   Lin, Dayu ^a,b  

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

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dopamine; electrophysiology; estrogen receptor alpha; hypothalamus; maternal behaviors; medial preoptic area; neural circuit; optogenetics; pup retrieval; ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

CHANNELRHODOPSIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL POPULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GLUTAMATERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LATENT PERIOD; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPTIC AREA; PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PREOPTIC AREA; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 85044783450     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.02.019     Document Type: Article

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