Maternal exposure to the antidepressant fluoxetine impairs sexual motivation in adult male mice

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 416-419

  Gouvêa, Thiago Santos ^a   Morimoto, Helena K ^a   de Faria, Maria José S S ^a   Moreira, Estefânia Gastaldello ^a   Gerardin, Daniela Cristina Ceccatto ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Copulatory behavior; Developmental exposure; Fluoxetine; Lactation; Pregnancy; Sexual behavior; Sexual motivation

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; FLUOXETINE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; LIBIDO; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COPULATION; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; GENITALIA, MALE; LACTATION; MALE; MICE; MOTIVATION; PITUITARY GLAND; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

MUS;

EID: 44649160516     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2008.03.025     Document Type: Article

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