The effect of hetero- and homosexual experience and long-term treatment with fluoxetine on homosexual behavior in male rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 269-275

  Habr Alencar, Soraya F ^a   Dias, Renata G ^a   Teodorov, Elizabeth ^a   Bernardi, Maria Martha ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b PAULISTA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fluoxetine; Heterosexual behavior; Homosexual behavior; Sexual experience

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; RATS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33751112740     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0574-1     Document Type: Article

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