Preoptic glutamate facilitates male sexual behavior

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1699-1703

  Dominguez, Juan M ^a   Gil, Mario ^a   Hull, Elaine M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutamate; HPLC; Limbic system; Male rats; Medial preoptic area; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FACILITATED COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATING TYPE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 32544444094     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4176-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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