Building neural choice points for love and war
- PMID: 15944120
- DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.05.001
Building neural choice points for love and war
Abstract
The molecular specification of central circuits that coordinate expression of innate behaviors in response to specific sensory cues from the environment remains a puzzle. In this issue of Neuron, Choi, Dong, and colleagues used expression profiling and genetic axonal tracing to visualize a hypothalamic point of convergence for defensive and reproductive olfactory cues that may function as a gating mechanism for sensory activation of defensive responses over reproduction.
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Lhx6 delineates a pathway mediating innate reproductive behaviors from the amygdala to the hypothalamus.Neuron. 2005 May 19;46(4):647-60. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.04.011. Neuron. 2005. PMID: 15944132
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