Circulating androgens enhance sensitivity to testosterone self-administration in male hamsters

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 383-389

  DiMeo, Anita N ^a   Wood, Ruth I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anabolic agents; Androgens; Hamsters; Self administration; Sex behavior, animal; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HAMSTER; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CRICETINAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; ORCHIECTOMY; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 11144265758     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2004.08.015     Document Type: Article

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