Sentences with phrase «mouse social hierarchy»
Most studies of mouse social hierarchy have focused on more aggressive behaviors such as how male mice might pick on new cage members, says Helmut Kessels, a neurologist at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience who was not involved with the research.
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To investigate the mPFC's role in social ranking, Hailan Hu and her colleagues at the Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai first worked out the hierarchy within a group of mice through challenges between pairs in tubes.
The crucial connections dictating a mouse's place in the social hierarchy appear to sit in the part of the brain called the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), responsible for emotion and decision - making.
But in mixed groups of mutated and genetically normal male mice, there was no social hierarchy.