Plasticity in anterior hypothalamic vasopressin correlates with aggression during anabolic-androgenic steroid withdrawal in hamsters

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-124

  Grimes, Jill M ^a   Ricci, Lesley A ^a   Melloni Jr , Richard H ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Aggression; Anabolic androgenic steroids; Anterior hypothalamus; Arginine vasopressin (AVP)

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; ANDROGEN; VASOPRESSIN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HAMSTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPECIES COMPARISON; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGGRESSION; ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CRICETINAE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NANDROLONE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TESTOSTERONE; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 33644766162     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.1.115     Document Type: Article

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