Neuroendocrinology of context-dependent stress responses: Vasotocin alters the effect of corticosterone on amphibian behaviors

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 222-228

  Coddington, Emma ^a   Moore, Frank L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid; Courtship; Courtship behaviors; Defensive behaviors; Roughskin newt; Taricha granulosa; Vasopressin; Vasotocin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; CORTICOSTERONE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; STRESS;

EID: 0037221459     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0018-506X(02)00015-6     Document Type: Article

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