Factors influencing aggression toward females by male rats exposed to anabolic androgenic steroids during puberty

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 135-141

  Cunningham, Rebecca L ^a   McGinnis, Marilyn Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Male sex behavior; Persistence

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; DRUG VEHICLE; ESTROGEN; MACROGOL 200; PROGESTERONE; STANOZOLOL; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION; PUBERTY; RAT; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING; STIMULUS;

AGGRESSION; ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL MATURATION; STANOZOLOL; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

EID: 33751527964     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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