Sensory and motor components of reproductive behavior: Pathways and plasticity

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 157-167

  Van Der Horst, Veronique G J M ^a   Holstege, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cat; Emotional behavior; Estrogen; Motoneurons; Nucleus retroambiguus; Periaqueductal gray; Sacral; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; SEX HORMONE;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN STEM; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TEGMENTUM;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CATS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0032080314     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00188-5     Document Type: Article

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