Activational effects of estradiol and dihydrotestosterone on social recognition and the arginine-vasopressin immunoreactive system in male mice lacking a functional aromatase gene

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 98-106

  Pierman, S ^a   Sica, M ^b   Allieri, F ^b   Viglietti Panzica, C ^b   Panzica, G C ^b   Bakker, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Bed nucleus of stria terminalis; Dihydrotestosterone; Estradiol; Hypothalamus; Lateral septum; Testosterone; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE PROPIONATE; ARGIPRESSIN; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE MUTATION; HABITUATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; AROMATASE; BRAIN; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; ORCHIECTOMY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 44149113509     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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