Central oxytocin and reproductive behaviours

Reviews of Reproduction

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-37

  Insel, Thomas R ^a   Young, Larry ^a   Wang, Zuoxin ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN RECEPTOR; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; REPRODUCTION; SEXUALITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030980071     PISSN: 13596004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ror.0.0020028     Document Type: Article

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