Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Lateral habenula glutamatergic neurons projecting to the dorsal raphe nucleus promote aggressive arousal in mice

  • Aki Takahashi,
  • Romain Durand-de Cuttoli,
  • Meghan E. Flanigan,
  • Emi Hasegawa,
  • Tomomi Tsunematsu,
  • Hossein Aleyasin,
  • Yoan Cherasse,
  • Ken Miya,
  • Takuya Okada,
  • Kazuko Keino-Masu,
  • Koshiro Mitsui,
  • Long Li,
  • Vishwendra Patel,
  • Robert D. Blitzer,
  • Michael Lazarus,
  • Kenji F. Tanaka,
  • Akihiro Yamanaka,
  • Takeshi Sakurai,
  • Sonoko Ogawa,
  • Scott J. Russo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31728-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) is known to modulate aggressive behaviour in rodents. Here the authors show that glutamatergic projections from the lateral habenula to DRN modulate aggression between male mice.