Estrogen implants in the lateral habenular nucleus do not stimulate the onset of maternal behavior in female rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-80

  Matthews Felton, Tracy ^a   Linton, Latoya N ^a   Rosenblatt, Jay S ^a   Morrell, Joan I ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABENULA; HISTOLOGY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYSTERECTOMY; IMPLANT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION;

EID: 0345369368     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1998.1498     Document Type: Article

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