Anabolic androgens restore mating after sexual satiety in male rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 241-246

  Phillips Farfán, Bryan V ^a   Romano Torres, Mónica ^a   Fernández Guasti, Alonso ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

5 Dihydrotestosterone; Anabolic androgens; Androgen receptor; Estradiol; Estrogen receptor; Flutamide; Sexual satiety; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; BOLDENONE UNDECENOATE; EQUI GAN; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; FLUTAMIDE; NANDROLONE DECANOATE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EJACULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SATIETY; SEXUAL SATISFACTION;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; EJACULATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; NANDROLONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 40849119687     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2007.12.016     Document Type: Article

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