Sexual experience sensitizes mating-related nucleus accumbens dopamine responses of female Syrian hamsters

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-52

  Kohlert, Jess G ^a   Meisel, Robert L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intromission; Lordosis; Microdialysis; Sensitization; Ventral tegmentum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; FEMALE; LIMBIC CORTEX; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYRIAN HAMSTER; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DOPAMINE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTURE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STILBAMIDINES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033557823     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00068-0     Document Type: Article

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