Lack of opioid or dopaminergic effects on unconditioned sexual incentive motivation in male rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-68

  Ågmo, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

17 METHYLNALOXONE; AMPHETAMINE; APOMORPHINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FLUPENTIXOL; LOPERAMIDE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EVALUATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037314047     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.1.55     Document Type: Article

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