Projection from the ventral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to the retrorubral field in rats and the effects of cells in these areas on mating in male rats versus gerbils

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-138

  Finn, Patricia D ^a   Yahr, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Gerbil; Male sex behavior; Medial preoptic area; Posterodorsal preoptic nucleus; Retrorubral field; Sexually dimorphic area

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; GERBIL; MALE; MATING; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANIMALS; DENERVATION; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 12344273321     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2004.08.008     Document Type: Article

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