Androgen receptor and mating-induced Fos immunoreactivity are co-localized in limbic and midbrain neurons that project to the male rat medial preoptic area

Brain Research

Volumn 781, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 15-24

  Gréco, Béatrice ^a   Edwards, David A ^a   Zumpe, Doris ^b   Clancy, Andrew N ^b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Central tegmental field; Early immediate gene; Sex behavior; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIBODY; CYANINE DYE; FLUORESCEIN; FLUOROGOLD; TRACER;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MATING; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREOPTIC AREA; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0032545749     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01136-0     Document Type: Article

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