Sexual behavior regulated (paced) by the female induces conditioned place preference

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 123-128

  Paredes, Raúl G ^a   Alonso, Araceli ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ANÁHUAC   (Mexico)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; COPULATION; CUES; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MORPHINE; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0031025010     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.1.123     Document Type: Article

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