Social status and sex independently influence androgen receptor expression in the eusocial naked mole-rat brain

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 278-285

  Holmes, Melissa M ^a   Goldman, Bruce D ^b   Forger, Nancy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Medial amygdala; Naked mole rat; Paraventricular nucleus; Plasticity; Premammillary nucleus; Sex difference; Social status; Testosterone; Ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MAMMAL; MOLE RAT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SPINAL CORD; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLE RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 45449092354     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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