Flank-marking behavior and the neural distribution of vasopressin innervation in golden hamsters with suprachiasmatic lesions.
Flank-marking behavior and the neural distribution of vasopressin innervation in golden hamsters with suprachiasmatic lesions.
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视交叉上病变金仓鼠的侧翼标记行为和加压素神经支配的神经分布。
DOI:
10.1037//0735-7044.112.6.1486
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Ferris,CF
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作者:
Delville,Y;DeVries,GJ;Schwartz,WJ;Ferris,CF
In golden hamsters, microinjections of arginine-vasopressin (AVP) within the anterior hypothalamus trigger a stereotyped scent-marking behavior, flank marking. Our experiment was carried out to test the contribution of AVP neurons within the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the control of this behavior. Our results suggest that the SCN does not contribute to flank-marking behavior. Whereas SCN lesions disrupted circadian rhythms of wheel running, the same lesions did not disrupt flank-marking. The results also suggest that neurons located outside the SCN contribute significantly to the vasopressinergic innervation of the brain and the expression of AVP-dependent behaviors, such as flank-marking behavior. Although AVP-immunoreactive fibers were severely (ca. 95%) depleted from several forebrain areas in SCN-lesioned hamsters, the effect of the lesions was much more limited within the forebrain areas involved in flank-marking behavior as well as within the midbrain and hindbrain.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)