Sexual experience increases nitric oxide synthase in the medial preoptic area of male rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1389-1394

  Dominguez, Juan M ^a,b   Brann, Jessica H ^a   Gil, Mario ^a   Hull, Elaine M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutamate; Learning; Memory; N methyl D aspartate; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EXPERIENCE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MATING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 33846077689     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.6.1389     Document Type: Article

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