Acute fasting decreases sexual receptivity and neural estrogen receptor-α in female rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-25

  Jones, Juli E ^a   Wade, George N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcuate nucleus; Nutritional infertility; Paraventricular nucleus; Preoptic area; Ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

BRAIN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DIET RESTRICTION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LORDOSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036709768     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(02)00780-1     Document Type: Article

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