Neurochemical Basis of Conditioned Partner Preference in the Female Rat: II. Disruption by Flupenthixol

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 396-406

  Coria Avila, Genaro A ^a   Gavrila, Alex M ^a   Boulard, Brigitte ^a   Charron, Natalie ^a   Stanley, Geoffrey ^a   Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

conditioning; dopamine; odors; paced copulation; sexual behavior and reward

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; FLUPENTIXOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

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

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

EID: 43449133260     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.2.396     Document Type: Article

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