Distribution of Fos immunoreactivity following mating versus anogenital investigation in the male rat brain

Neuroscience

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1151-1161

  Coolen, L M ^a   Peters, H J P W ^a   Veening, J G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; chemosensory signals; genitosensory signals; medial amygdala; medial preoptic area; midbrain

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 0030887911     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00542-8     Document Type: Article

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