Social and sexual incentive properties of estrogen receptor α, estrogen receptor β, or oxytocin knockout mice

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-77

  Agmo A ^a   Choleris, E ^b   Kavaliers, M ^c   Pfaff, D W ^d   Ogawa, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERKO; ERKO; Estrogen receptor knockout; Estrogen receptor knockout; Estrogens; Oxytocin knockout; Sexual incentive motivation

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE PLUS PROGESTERONE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; OIL; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTIVATION; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

MUS;

EID: 38349051222     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2007.00327.x     Document Type: Article

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