Functional circuit architecture underlying parental behaviour

Nature

Volumn 556, Issue 7701, 2018, Pages 326-331

  Kohl, Johannes ^a   Babayan, Benedicte M ^a   Rubinstein, Nimrod D ^a   Autry, Anita E ^a   Marin Rodriguez, Brenda ^a   Kapoor, Vikrant ^a   Miyamishi, Kazunari ^b   Zweifel, Larry S ^c   Luo, Liqun ^b   Uchida, Naoshige ^a   Dulac, Catherine ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALANIN; HORMONE;

BRAIN; CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CYTOLOGY; LOGIC; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; OPTOGENETICS; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPTIC AREA; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GALANIN; HORMONES; LOGIC; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MOTIVATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OPTOGENETICS; PARENTING; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREOPTIC AREA; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85045549806     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0027-0     Document Type: Article

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