Molecular, spatial, and functional single-cell profiling of the hypothalamic preoptic region

Science

Volumn 362, Issue 6416, 2018, Pages

  Moffitt, Jeffrey R ^a,b,c   Bambah Mukku, Dhananjay ^a   Eichhorn, Stephen W ^a,b,c   Vaughn, Eric ^a   Shekhar, Karthik ^d   Perez, Julio D ^a   Rubinstein, Nimrod D ^a   Hao, Junjie ^a,b,c   Regev, Aviv ^a,d,e   Dulac, Catherine ^a   Zhuang, Xiaowei ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELL COMPONENT; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; MAPPING METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RNA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PREOPTIC AREA; RNA SEQUENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; BOOK; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

MUS;

ADCYAP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; GALANIN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GALANIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; PREOPTIC AREA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85056571109     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aau5324     Document Type: Article

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