Extracellular dopamine in the medial preoptic area: Implications for sexual motivation and hormonal control of copulation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 7465-7471

  Hull, Elaine M ^a   Du, Jianfang ^a   Lorrain, Daniel S ^a   Matuszewich, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

copulation; dopamine; medial preoptic area; microdialysis; rats; sexual motivation; testosterone

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; HISTOLOGY; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULATION; TREADMILL;

EID: 0028865131     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.15-11-07465.1995     Document Type: Article

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