Date: Sept.2, 2022

Source: Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Central Nervous System Regeneration Institute

Zhang Li's research team from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Central Nervous System (CNS) Regeneration Institute has published a paper in the National Science Review (IF=23.2, multidisciplinary ranking 4/73 in JCR). The paper is titled Amygdala Neural Ensemble Mediates Mouse Social Investigation Behaviors. The researchers discovered that secretin (SCT), a gastrointestinal hormone, plays a regulatory role in the innate social behaviors of mice in the basolateral amygdala (BLA) area of the brain. 

(Screenshot of the paper)

The research, led by the JNU team, relies on JNU's Key Laboratory of CNS Regeneration. It is also supported by Academician Su Guohui at JNU and Prof. Billy KC Chow at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Associate Researcher Zhang Li is the corresponding author. The first authors are Wei Ji’an, a doctoral student jointly cultivated by HKU and JNU, and Han Qing and Luo Zhihua, JNU doctoral students. This project was funded by Ministry of Science and Technology's major science and technology projects for brain science and brainlike research, the National Natural Science Foundation and Guangzhou's brain science project. 

The National Science Review, sponsored by Chinese Academy of Sciences, is on the list of leading journals of the Action Plan for Excellent Scientific and Technological Journals of China.

Link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwac179