Serotonergic responses to corticosterone and testosterone in the limbic system

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 151-159

  Summers, Cliff H ^a   Larson, Earl T ^a   Ronan, Patrick J ^a   Hofmann, Peter M ^a   Emerson, Aaron J ^a   Renner, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Androgen; Anolis carolinensis; Brain punch; Glucocorticoid; Hippocampus; Lizard; Microdissection; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; SEROTONIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LIZARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033966045     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7408     Document Type: Article

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