Affective properties of intra-medial preoptic area injections of testosterone in male rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 149-152

  King, Brian E ^a   Packard, Mark G ^a,b   Alexander, Gerianne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned place preference; Hypothalamus; Medial preoptic area; Reward; Sexual behavior; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033575454     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00440-1     Document Type: Article

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