Castration Reduces the Effect of Serotonin-1A Receptor Stimulation on Prepulse Inhibition in Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1407-1415

  Gogos, Andrea ^a,b   Van Den Buuse, Maarten ^a,b  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 DIBUTYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; STARTLE REFLEX;

8-HYDROXY-2-(DI-N-PROPYLAMINO)TETRALIN; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; OVARIECTOMY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1A; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; STARTLE REACTION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0345734336     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1407     Document Type: Article

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