Sexual experience interacts with steroid exposure to shape the partner preferences of rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 148-157

  Woodson, James C ^a,b   Balleine, Bernard W ^a   Gorski, Roger A ^b  

^a Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Experience; Female; Hypothalamus; Learning; Masculinization; Motivation; Orientation; Partner preference; Rat; SDN POA; Sex; Sexual

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MASCULINITY; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEANING;

EID: 0036423099     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.2002.1816     Document Type: Article

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