Sexual behavior reduces hypothalamic androgen receptor immunoreactivity

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 501-512

  Fernandez Guasti, Alonso ^a   Swaab, Dick ^b   Rodríguez Manzo, Gabriela ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor immunoreactivity; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Male sexual exhaustion; Medial preoptic nucleus; Nucleus accumbens; Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; EXHAUSTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SATIETY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 12444293809     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(02)00036-7     Document Type: Article

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