Dopamine D 1 Receptor Stimulation of the Nucleus Accumbens or the Medial Preoptic Area Promotes the Onset of Maternal Behavior in Pregnancy-Terminated Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 907-919

  Stolzenberg, Danielle S ^a   McKenna, Jonathan B ^a   Keough, Samantha ^a   Hancock, Rebecca ^a   Numan, Marilyn J ^a   Numan, Michael ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

dopamine; maternal behavior; nucleus accumbens; preoptic area

Indexed keywords

2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 7,8 DIHYDROXY 1 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; QUINPIROLE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; HORMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PUERPERIUM; RAT; ANIMAL; BREEDING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; HYSTERECTOMY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDUCED ABORTION; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPTIC AREA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

2,3,4,5-TETRAHYDRO-7,8-DIHYDROXY-1-PHENYL-1H-3-BENZAZEPINE; ABORTION, INDUCED; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; FEMALE; HORMONES; HYSTERECTOMY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICROINJECTIONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PREOPTIC AREA; QUINPIROLE; RATS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2;

EID: 35748956885     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.5.907     Document Type: Article

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