Neurochemical Basis of Conditioned Partner Preference in the Female Rat: I. Disruption by Naloxone

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 385-395

  Coria Avila, Genaro A ^a   Solomon, Carrie E ^a   Vargas, Erica Barbosa ^a   Lemme, Ivana ^a   Ryan, Richard ^a   Ménard, Shann ^a   Gavrila, Alex M ^a   Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

conditioned partner preference; odors; opioids; paced copulation; sexual behavior and reward

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; NALOXONE; OPIATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OVARIECTOMY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SMELL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 43449095393     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.2.385     Document Type: Article

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