Gonadal steroids regulate behavioral responses to pheromones by actions on a subdivision of the medial preoptic nucleus

Brain Research

Volumn 750, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 189-194

  Swann, Jennifer M ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Fos; mating behavior; medial nucleus of the amygdala; medial preoptic area; testosterone

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN MAPPING; COPULATION; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; ORCHIECTOMY; PHEROMONES; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE; VAGINA;

EID: 0031048441     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01348-0     Document Type: Article

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