Journal: eLife
Article Title: Short-term social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in a sex- and context-dependent manner
doi: 10.7554/eLife.94924
Figure Lengend Snippet: ( A ) Total time spent in resident-initiated social investigation is shown for group-housed male residents (teal) and single-housed male residents (maroon) during interactions with either female visitors (left) or male visitors (right). ( B ) Same as ( A ), for proportion of trials with resident-initiated mounting. ( C ) Same as ( A ), for total USVs recorded from pairs containing group-housed or single-housed male residents. ( D ) Total number of Fos-positive POA neurons is shown for group-housed male residents (teal) and single-housed male residents (maroon) following interactions with female visitors (left) or male visitors (right). ( E ) Experimental timeline and viral strategy to chemogenetically inhibit the activity of POA social neurons in single-housed males. ( F ) Total time spent in resident-initiated social investigation is shown on saline and CNO days for experimental males in which hM4Di is expressed in POA social neurons (red symbols, n=10) and control males in which GFP is expressed in POA social neurons (black symbols, n=10). ( G ) Same as ( F ), for proportion of trials with resident-initiated mounting. ( H ) Same as ( F ), for total USVs. All error bars show standard deviation.
Article Snippet: The following viruses and injection volumes were used: AAV2/1-hSyn-FLEX-hM4Di-mCherry (Addgene #44262, 200 nL), AAV2/1-CAG-FLEX-EGFP-WPRE (Addgene #51502, 200 nL), AAV2/5-Ef1alpha-FLEX-taCasp3-TEVp (Addgene #45580, 200 nL), AAV2/1-Ef1alpha-hChR2(h134R)-EYFP-WPRE-HGHpA (Addgene #20298, 200 nL), AAVrg-pgk-Cre (Addgene #24593, 200 nL), and AAV2/5-hSyn-hM4Di-mCherry (Addgene #50475, 200 nL).
Techniques: Activity Assay, Saline, Control, Standard Deviation