Sex hormones enhance the impact of male sensory cues on both primary and association cortical components of visual and olfactory processing pathways as well as in limbic and hypothalamic regions in female sheep

Neuroscience

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 285-297

  Ohkura, S ^a,c   Fabre Nys, C ^b   Broad, K D ^a   Kendrick, K M ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c fos; Female sexual behaviour; Hypothalamus; Limbic system; Olfaction; Vision

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ONCOGENE C FOS; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHEEP; SMELLING; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CUES; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SHEEP; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0030766502     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00103-6     Document Type: Article

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