Implications of immediate-early gene induction in the brain following sexual stimulation of female and male rodents

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 397-407

  Pfaus, James G ^a   Heeb, Michaela M ^b  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulation; Fos; Hormone; Jun; Neuroanatomy; Sex

Indexed keywords

IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COPULATION; FEMALE; GENE INDUCTION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; RODENTIA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030671459     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(97)00219-0     Document Type: Article

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