The effects of mating stimulation on c-Fos immunoreactivity in the female hamster medial amygdala are region and context dependent

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 212-222

  Shelley, Deborah N ^a   Meisel, Robert L ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

c Fos; Female sexual behavior; Hamster; Mating context; Medial amygdala; Pseudopregnancy; Vaginocervical stimulation; Ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TACTILE STIMULATION; ZONA INCERTA;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CERVIX UTERI; CRICETINAE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTURE; PROGESTERONE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VAGINA; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 12344283045     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2004.09.009     Document Type: Article

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