Sensory mediation of female-male mounting in the rat: I. Role of olfactory cues

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 857-862

  Afonso, Veronica M ^a   Woehrling, Amélie ^a   Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Female rat; Olfaction; Olfactory impairment; Sexual experience

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CASTRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; OLFACTORY BULBECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING; SMELLING DISORDER;

EID: 33646132307     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.01.009     Document Type: Article

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