Neural activation following sexual behavior in the male and female rat brain

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-193

  Veening, Jan G ^a   Coolen, Lique M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; C Fos; Galanin; Medial preoptic nucleus; Posterodorsal medial amygdaloid nucleus; Subparafascicular nucleus; Tract tracing

Indexed keywords

2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; PROTEIN C FOS; SEROTONIN 1A AGONIST;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; EJACULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0032079908     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00190-3     Document Type: Article

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