Effects of androgens and estrogens on sexual differentiation of sex behavior, scent marking, and the sexually dimorphic area of the gerbil hypothalamus

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 107-130

  Ulibarri, Catherine ^a,b   Yahr, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; METRIBOLONE; MOXESTROL; PHEROMONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERBIL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCENT GLAND; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030175977     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1996.0015     Document Type: Article

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