Does estrogen facilitate social behavior by reducing anxiety?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 807, Issue , 1997, Pages 541-542

  Mccarthy, Margaret M ^a   Schwartz Giblin, Susan ^b   Wang, Sue May ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; DIAZEPAM; ESTROGEN; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030941718     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51962.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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