Effects of neonatal oxytocin manipulations on male reproductive potential in prairie voles

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 519-526

  Bales, Karen L ^a   Abdelnabi, Mahmoud ^b   Cushing, Bruce S ^a   Ottinger, Mary Ann ^b   Carter, C Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Atosiban; Male sexual behavior; Oxytocin; Pitocin; Sperm transport; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; EPIDIDYMIS; EXPERIMENT; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; LAVAGE; MALE; MATING; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRAIRIE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMEAR; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TIME; VOLE;

EID: 2342597072     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2004.02.016     Document Type: Article

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