Post-weaning social isolation of male rats reduces the volume of the medial amygdala and leads to deficits in adult sexual behavior

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 107-113

  Cooke, Bradley M ^a   Chowanadisai, Winyoo ^a   Breedlove, S Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Male rat; Medial amygdala; Noncontact erection; Sexual behavior; Social isolation; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WEANING;

AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; PENILE ERECTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0034694899     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00301-6     Document Type: Article

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