Sexual experience in female rodents: Cellular mechanisms and functional consequences

Brain Research

Volumn 1126, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-65

  Meisel, Robert L ^a   Mullins, Amanda J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulation; Dopamine; Nucleus accumbens; Plasticity; Sensitization; Signaling

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ARTICLE; COPULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; REPRODUCTION; REWARD; RODENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; CRICETINAE; DENDRITIC SPINES; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 33845344725     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.08.050     Document Type: Article

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