The effects of oxytocin and vasopressin on partner preferences in male and female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1071-1079

  Cho, Mary M ^c   DeVries, A Courtney ^a   Williams, Jessie R ^c   Carter, C Sue ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COITUS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOLE;

EID: 0033508584     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.5.1071     Document Type: Article

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