Hypothalamic perifornical Urocortin-3 neurons modulate defensive responses to a potential threat stimulus

Summary: Defensive behaviors are evolved responses to threat stimuli, and a potential threat elicits risk assessment (RA) behavior. However, neural mechanisms underlying RA behavior are hardly understood. Urocortin-3 (Ucn3) is a member of corticotropin-releasing factor peptide family and here, we re...

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Main Authors: Noriko Horii-Hayashi, Kensaku Nomoto, Nozomi Endo, Akihiro Yamanaka, Takefumi Kikusui, Mayumi Nishi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220311056