Play fighting in androgen-insensitive tfm rats: Evidence that androgen receptors are necessary for the development of adult playful attack and defense

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 111-120

  Field, Evelyn F ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a   Pellis, Sergio M ^a   Watson, Neil V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Androgen receptors; Defeminization; Demasculinization; Development; Estrogen receptors; Feminization; Masculinization; Play behavior; Playful attack; Playful defense; Rat; tfm affected males

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; FIGHTING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLAY; PUBERTY; RAT; ROTATION; VIRILIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PUBERTY; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEX FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645095989     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20121     Document Type: Article

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