7α-Methyl-19-nortestosterone facilitates sexual behavior in the male Syrian hamster

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 131-137

  Wood, Ruth I ^a,c   Bean, Alan R ^a   Sundaram, Kalyan ^b   Kumar, Narendar ^b   Bardin, C Wayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANDROLONE DERIVATIVE; TESTOSTERONE; TRESTOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

EID: 0030176006     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1996.0016     Document Type: Article

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