Gonadal steroid-dependent GAL-IR cells within the medial preoptic nucleus (MPN) and the stimulatory effects of GAL within the MPN on sexual behaviors

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 863, Issue , 1998, Pages 188-205

  Bloch, G J ^a   Butler, P C ^a   Eckersell, C B ^b   Mills, R H ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTROGEN; GALANIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL SIZE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LORDOSIS; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032430260     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10695.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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