Aggression is not blind: dominance and social history modulate murine responses to social instigation.
Rationale: The social instigation procedure is a behavioral model used to induce escalated aggression in male mice. In this procedure, a brief indirect encounter with a novel rival male (instigator) placed in a tube enhances aggression toward an intruder in the subsequent agonistic encounter. Howeve...
| Publicado en: | Psychopharmacology Vol. 243; no. 5; pp. 989 - 1003 |
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Springer Nature
May2026
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