Estrous odors and sexually conditioned neutral odors activate separate neural pathways in the male rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 971-979

  Kippin, T E ^a,b   Cain, S W ^b   Pfaus, J G ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Fos; Hypothalmus; Nucleus accumbens; Odor; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TEGMENTUM; ZONA INCERTA;

EID: 0344837739     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00972-7     Document Type: Article

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