Activational and organizational actions of gonadal hormones and the sex- specific effects of prolactin on food intake by rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-67

  Heil, Sarah H ^a,b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activational; Female; Food intake; Gonadectomy; Hyperphagia; Male; Organizational; Prolactin; Rat; Rattus norvegicus; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CASTRATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE ACTION; HYPERPHAGIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EATING; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0033063074     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199907)35:1<61::AID-DEV8>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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