Sexual behavior of male rats is differentially affected by timing of perinatal ACTH administration

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 689-697

  Segarra, Annabell C ^a   Luine, Victoria N ^b   Strand, Fleur L ^c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Development; Preoptic area; Rat; Serotonin; Sexual behavior; Sexual differentiation; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; PROLACTIN; SEROTONIN; TESTOSTERONE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; CORTICOTROPIN; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROLACTIN; RATS; SEROTONIN; SEX BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0026095259     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(91)90004-8     Document Type: Article

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