Sexual motivation promotes oxytocin secretion in male rats

Peptides

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-45

  Hillegaart, Viveka ^a   Alster, Pawel ^a   Uvnäs Moberg, Kerstin ^a   Ahlenius, Sven ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Male rat; Motivation; Oxytocin; Radioimmunoassay; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MONOAMINE; CHOLECYSTOKININ; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; GASTRIN; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHOLECYSTOKININ; COPULATION; FEMALE; INSULIN; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PROLACTIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 0031891734     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(97)00250-7     Document Type: Article

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