[3P] Social Behavior

[3P-107] A male-specific neuronal projection from the medial preoptic area to the ventral tegmental area is involved in the control of male sexual behavior in mice

〇Masahiro Morishita¹, Moeri Mitsuzuka¹, Yosuke Tsuneoka², Shuhei Horio³, Kazuto Kobayashi⁴, Shigeki Kato⁴, Shinji Tsukahara¹ (1.Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama university, Saitama, Japan, 2.Department of Anatomy, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan, 3.National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Aichi, Japan, 4.Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan)

Keywords:mouse, sexually dimorphic nucleus, preoptic area, sexual behavior