Systemic and intracerebroventicular injections of vasotocin inhibit appetitive and consummatory components an male sexual behavior in Japanese quail

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 233-250

  Castagna, Claudia ^a,b   Absil, Philippe ^a   Foidart, Agnès ^a   Balthazart, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIURESIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; APPETITE; BRAIN; COPULATION; COTURNIX; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COPULATION; COTURNIX; DIURESIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE; VASOTOCIN; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031594251     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.1.233     Document Type: Article

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