Activation of POMC Neurons During General Arousal but Not Sexual Behavior in Male Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1012-1022

  Davis, Brooke A ^a   Fitzgerald, Maureen E ^a   Brown, Jennifer L ^a   Amstalden, Katia A Z ^a   Coolen, Lique M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

MSH; beta endorphin; mediobasal hypothalamus; opioid; reproductive behavior

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; BETA ENDORPHIN; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATING; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; DARKNESS; EJACULATION; GENES, FOS; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STILBAMIDINES;

EID: 35748973288     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.5.1012     Document Type: Article

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