c-fos expression as a tool to search for the neurobiological base of the sexual behaviour of males

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 567-577

  Biały, Michal ^a   Kaczmarek, Leszek ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

copulatory behaviour; hamster; immediate early genes; learning and memory; mouse; neuronal mapping; neuronal plasticity; rat

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMSTER; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; RAT; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; COPULATION; CRICETINAE; GENES, FOS; HORMONES; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030008713     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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