Behavioral effects of 3α-androstanediol I: Modulation of sexual receptivity and promotion of GABA-stimulated chloride flux

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 109-118

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a,b   Van Keuren, Kendall R ^a,c   Erskine, Mary S ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Lordosis; Neuroactive steroid; Neurosteroid; Non genomic; Proceptivity; Progestin; Steroid mechanism

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANDROSTANEDIOL; CHLORIDE; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AGGRESSION; ANDROSTANE-3,17-DIOL; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; POSTURE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SYNAPTOSOMES;

EID: 0030248197     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(96)00004-6     Document Type: Article

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