Central insulin administration maintains reproductive behavior in diabetic female rats

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 90-95

  Kovacs, Peter ^a   Morales, Jose C ^a   Karkanias, George B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Gonadal steroids; Gonadotropins; Insulin; Lordosis; Sex behavior

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; HUMAN INSULIN; PROGESTERONE; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL 3-BENZOATE; INSULIN; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE ACTION; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LOCOMOTION; LORDOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SNIFFING; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG INTERACTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OVARIECTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INSULIN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0141505065     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071964     Document Type: Article

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