Androgenic effects on hypothalamic asymmetry in a sexually differentiated nucleus related to vocal behavior in mongolian gerbils

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 662-672

  Holman, S D ^a   Rice, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GERBIL; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0030439222     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1996.0067     Document Type: Article

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