Mechanisms underlying the absence of the pubertal shift in the playful defense of female rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-156

  Smith, Lori K ^a,b   Forgie, Margaret L ^a   Pellis, Sergio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agression; Ovariectomy; Play fighting; Playful defense; Puberty; Testosterone propionate

Indexed keywords

TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIGHTING; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLAY; PUBERTY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL MATURATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031685389     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199809)33:2<147::AID-DEV5>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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