GABA and glutamate in mating-activated cells in the preoptic area and medial amygdala of male gerbils

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 459, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 290-300

  Simmons, Danielle A ^a   Yahr, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Ejaculation; Mating induced Fos; Posterodorsal medial amygdala; Posterodorsal preoptic nucleus; Sexually dimorphic preoptic area

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GERBIL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRIA TERMINALIS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GERBILLINAE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; PREOPTIC AREA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0037420724     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10605     Document Type: Article

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