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. 2025 Jun 4.
doi: 10.1007/s00213-025-06824-9. Online ahead of print.

Aggression is not blind: dominance and social history modulate murine responses to social instigation

Tomoya Nagai  1   2 , Aki Takahashi  3   4
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Aggression is not blind: dominance and social history modulate murine responses to social instigation

Tomoya Nagai et al. Psychopharmacology (Berl). .
No abstract available

Keywords: Aggressive behavior; Dominant-subordinate relationship; Escalated aggression; Mice; Social dominance; Social familiarity; Social instigation; Social novelty.

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Declarations. Ethical approval: All experimental procedures were approved and conducted in accordance with the Animal Care and Use Committee at the University of Tsukuba (approval number,24-366). Consent to participate: Not applicable. Consent to publish: Not applicable. Competing interests: The authors have nothing to disclose.

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