Developmental exposure to oxytocin facilitates partner preferences in male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 854-859

  Bales, Karen L ^a   Carter, C Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARVICOLINAE; FEMALE; MALE; OXYTOCIN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0041664935     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.4.854     Document Type: Article

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