Sexual motivation is demasculinized, but not feminized, in prenatally stressed male rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 357-364

  Wang, C T ^a   Shui, H A ^b   Huang, R L ^a   Tai, M Y ^a   Peng, M T ^a   Tsai, Y F ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Copulation; Dopamine; Microdialysis; Nucleus accumbens; Sexual partner preference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 32844458325     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.11.026     Document Type: Article

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