Prenatal stress-induced modifications of neuronal nitric oxide synthase in amygdala and medial preoptic area

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 877, Issue , 1999, Pages 760-763

  Miller, Stephen D ^a   Mueller, Eric ^a   Gifford, Gordon W ^a   Kinsley, Craig Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

EID: 0032814718     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09318.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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