Testosterone rapidly reduces anxiety in male house mice (Mus musculus)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 448-460

  Aikey, Jeremy L ^a,b   Nyby, John G ^a   Anmuth, David M ^a,c   James, Peter J ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 androstanediol; Androsterone; Anxiety; Anxiolytic; Bicucculine; Elevated plus maze; GABAA receptor; Mouse; Nongenomic; Pheromone; Picrotoxin; Sex; Steroid; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANDROSTANEDIONE; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTERONE; BICUCULLINE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; PHEROMONE; PICROTOXIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENOME; HORMONE RELEASE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036939169     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.2002.1838     Document Type: Article

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