NYU Dataset

Experience-Dependent Dopamine Modulation of Male Aggression

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Aggression is an innate social behaviour that is essential for defending territory, competing for resources, and securing mates. This study demonstrated that dopaminergic cells in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) can bidirectionally modulate aggression in male mice in an experience-dependent manner. To investigate the role of experience-dependent dopamine modulation on aggression, they tested the effect of VTADAT inhibition in novice and expert aggressors. This dataset contains behavioral annotations, tracking, fiber photometry, slice electrophysiology, and raw representative histology images. These results indicate a prominent role of dopamine in the rise of aggression in adult male mice.

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Behavioral annotations, tracking, fiber photometry, slice electrophysiology and raw representative histology images as well as MATLAB codes used in this study can be downloaded from Zenodo. Illustrations of the coronal brain sections are based on images from the Allen Brain Reference Atlas and the source data are provided with this paper on Nature.
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Axon Digidata 1550B
Basler acA640-120um
CoolLED pE-300white
Femtowatt Silicon Photoreceiver
Kopf Instruments Model 1900
Leica CM1900
Leica VT1200 S
Molecular Devices MultiClamp 700B
Olympus VS120
RZ5 BioAmp Processor
Thorlabs CFLC230
Thorlabs FT200EMT
WPI Nanoliter 2000
Zeiss LSM 510
Zeiss LSM 700
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Cellpose v1.0
DeepLabCut
Fiji
GraphPad Prism v10.0
ImageJ
MATLAB R2023a
pCLAMP v11.0
StreamPix v8
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Vulnerable Brain Project/NYU Langone Health