Prenatal β-Endorphin Can Modulate Some Aspects of Sexual Differentiation in Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 555-562

  Kashon, Michael L ^a   Ward, O Byron ^a   Grisham, William ^a   Ward, Ingeborg L ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; OPIATE; PROGESTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; FETUS; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STRESS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMAL; BETA-ENDORPHIN; FEMALE; IN VITRO; MALE; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SEX BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX MATURATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPINAL CORD; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026772012     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.106.3.555     Document Type: Article

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