Acceleration of mounting behaviors in female rats by ibotenic acid lesions in the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 291, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 143-146

  Matsumoto, Takahiro ^a   Yamanouchi, Korehito ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Female rat; Ibotenic acid; Mounting behavior; Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID; SILASTIC; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT SURVEY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0034703596     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01388-4     Document Type: Article

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