Pre-exposure to female chemosignals or intracerebral GnRH restores mating behavior in naive male hamsters with vomeronasal organ lesions

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 191-196

  Westberry, Jenne M ^a   Meredith, Michael ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonadotrophin releasing hormone; Hamster; Mating; Pheromone; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; NEUROHORMONE; PHEROMONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAMSTER; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

CRICETINAE;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0642340729     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/28.3.191     Document Type: Article

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