Regulatory mechanisms of oxytocin-mediated sociosexual behavior

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 807, Issue , 1997, Pages 287-301

  Witt, Diane M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030981273     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51927.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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