| Literature DB >> 25558063 |
Yongsoo Kim1, Kannan Umadevi Venkataraju1, Kith Pradhan1, Carolin Mende1, Julian Taranda1, Srinivas C Turaga2, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras2, Lydia Ng3, Michael J Hawrylycz3, Kathleen S Rockland4, H Sebastian Seung2, Pavel Osten5.
Abstract
Understanding how brain activation mediates behaviors is a central goal of systems neuroscience. Here, we apply an automated method for mapping brain activation in the mouse in order to probe how sex-specific social behaviors are represented in the male brain. Our method uses the immediate-early-gene c-fos, a marker of neuronal activation, visualized by serial two-photon tomography: the c-fos-GFP+ neurons are computationally detected, their distribution is registered to a reference brain and a brain atlas, and their numbers are analyzed by statistical tests. Our results reveal distinct and shared female and male interaction-evoked patterns of male brain activation representing sex discrimination and social recognition. We also identify brain regions whose degree of activity correlates to specific features of social behaviors and estimate the total numbers and the densities of activated neurons per brain areas. Our study opens the door to automated screening of behavior-evoked brain activation in the mouse.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25558063 PMCID： PMC4294964 DOI： 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.12.014
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Rep Impact factor: 9.423