The partner preference paradigm: A method to study sexual motivation and performance of female rats

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 320-325

  Avitsur, Ronit ^a   Yirmiya, Raz ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Lordosis; Partner preference; Proceptive behavior; Rat; Sexual behavior; Sexual motivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 0032955784     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(98)00057-9     Document Type: Article

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