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ArticleNature protocols2009

Housing conditions and stimulus females: a robust social discrimination task for studying male rodent social recognition.

Abbe H Macbeth, Jennifer Stepp Edds, W Scott Young

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Article in Nature protocols, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Abbe H MacbethSection on Neural Gene Expression, NIMH, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Jennifer Stepp Edds
W Scott Young
United States Department of Health and Human Services · US

Funding

Roles of Oxytocin and Vasopressin in BrainZIAMH002498 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI YOUNG, WALTER SCOTT · 2009 to 2022
$26.3M
REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION IN THE BRAINZ01MH002498 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI YOUNG, WALTER SCOTT · 1990 to 2008
$3.2M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 MH002498Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002498NIMH NIH HHS Z01-MH-002498-20
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social recognition (SR) enables rodents to distinguish between familiar and novel conspecifics, largely through individual odor cues. SR tasks utilize the tendency for a male to sniff and interact with a novel individual more than a familiar individual. Many paradigms have been used to study the roles of the neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin in SR. However, inconsistencies in results have arisen within similar mouse strains, and across different paradigms and laboratories, making reliable testing of SR difficult. The current protocol details a novel approach that is replicable across investigators and in different strains of mice. We created a protocol that uses gonadally intact, singly housed females presented within corrals to group-housed males. Housing females singly before testing is particularly important for reliable discrimination. This methodology will be useful for studying short-term social memory in rodents, and may also be applicable for longer term studies.

Indexed as

Discrimination, PsychologicalHousing, AnimalRecognition, PsychologySocial BehaviorAnimalsBehavior, AnimalFemaleMaleMiceRatsResearch Design

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PMID19816420
PMCPMC3018731
OpenAlexW1980815130

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