Engaging in paced mating, but neither exploratory, anti-anxiety, nor social behavior, increases 5α-reduced progestin concentrations in midbrain, hippocampus, striatum, and cortex

Reproduction

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 663-674

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a   Paris, Jason J ^a   Rhodes, Madeline E ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20ALPHA DIHYDROPROGESTERONE; 3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; ESTRADIOL; GESTAGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; MATING; MAZE TEST; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

20-ALPHA-DIHYDROPROGESTERONE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; ESTRADIOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MESENCEPHALON; PREGNANOLONE; PROGESTINS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

RATTUS;

EID: 34247590169     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.01208     Document Type: Article

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