Testicular hormone exposure during adolescence organizes flank-marking behavior and vasopressin receptor binding in the lateral septum

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 477-483

  Schulz, Kalynn M ^a   Menard, Tami A ^b   Smith, Debra A ^b   Albers, H Elliott ^b   Sisk, Cheryl L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Agonistic; Organizational effects; Puberty; Scent marking; Steroid hormones; Testosterone; V1a receptors; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADECTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNAPSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; CRICETINAE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; SCENT GLANDS; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33747044110     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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