Effects of prenatal morphine exposure on rat heterotypical sexual behavior

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 667-671

  Vathy, Ilona ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Defeminization; Masculinization; Prenatal morphine

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; MORPHINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GONADECTOMY; HYSTERECTOMY; LORDOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VIRILIZATION;

EID: 0033010311     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(99)00002-5     Document Type: Article

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