The aromatase knock-out mouse provides new evidence that estradiol is required during development in the female for the expression of sociosexual behaviors in adulthood

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 9104-9112

  Bakker, Julie ^a   Honda, Shin Ichiro ^b   Harada, Nobuhiro ^b   Balthazart, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Behavior; Development; Olfaction; Preference; Sex

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HORMONAL REGULATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SNIFFING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037109763     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-20-09104.2002     Document Type: Article

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