Fos induction in the Japanese quail brain after expression of appetitive and consummatory aspects of male sexual behavior

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 249-262

  Tlemçani, Omar ^a   Ball, Gregory F ^b   D'Hondt, Els ^c   Vandesande, Frans ^c   Sharp, Peter J ^d   Balthazart, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Behav Neuroendocrinol Grp   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appetitive sexual behavior; Copulation; Coturnix japonica; Immediate early genes; Sexual behavior; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN C FOS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUAIL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CASTRATION; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; COTURNIX; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0343294318     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(00)00233-1     Document Type: Article

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