Neonatal castration and adult responsiveness to testosterone in male rats: An interstrain comparison

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1371-1378

  Wall, Anders ^a   Meyerson, Bengt J ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Copulator behavior; Neonatal castration; Plasma testosterone; SHR; Strain differences; Testosterone; Wistar; WKY

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASTRATION; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030693360     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00363-6     Document Type: Article

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