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Sexual attraction enhances glutamate transmission in mammalian anterior cingulate cortex

Overview of attention for article published in Molecular Brain, May 2009
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Title
Sexual attraction enhances glutamate transmission in mammalian anterior cingulate cortex
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Molecular Brain, May 2009
DOI 10.1186/1756-6606-2-9
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Long-Jun Wu, Susan S Kim, Xiangyao Li, Fuxing Zhang, Min Zhuo

Abstract

Functional human brain imaging studies have indicated the essential role of cortical regions, such as the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), in romantic love and sex. However, the neurobiological basis of how the ACC neurons are activated and engaged in sexual attraction remains unknown. Using transgenic mice in which the expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP) is controlled by the promoter of the activity-dependent gene c-fos, we found that ACC pyramidal neurons are activated by sexual attraction. The presynaptic glutamate release to the activated neurons is increased and pharmacological inhibition of neuronal activities in the ACC reduced the interest of male mice to female mice. Our results present direct evidence of the critical role of the ACC in sexual attraction, and long-term increases in glutamate mediated excitatory transmission may contribute to sexual attraction between male and female mice.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Hong Kong 1 3%
United States 1 3%
Unknown 34 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 19%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Other 3 8%
Student > Master 3 8%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 7 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 25%
Psychology 8 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 11%
Neuroscience 3 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 9 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 May 2023.
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#7,670,776
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Outputs from Molecular Brain
#354
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Outputs of similar age
#33,418
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Outputs of similar age from Molecular Brain
#3
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