The progesterone challenge: Steroid hormone changes following a simulated territorial intrusion in female Peromyscus californicus

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 185-198

  Davis, Ellen S ^a,b   Marler, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICETIDAE; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 0242691634     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0018-506X(03)00128-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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