Fos immunoreactivity in the rat brain following consummatory elements of sexual behavior: A sex comparison

Brain Research

Volumn 738, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-82

  Coolen, Lique M ^a   Peters, Hans J P W ^a   Veening, Jan G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; copulation; female rat; male rat; medial amygdala; medial preoptic area; midbrian; steroids

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030605067     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00763-9     Document Type: Article

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