Neural substrates for sexual preference and motivation in the female and male rat

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1129, Issue , 2008, Pages 55-60

  Sakuma, Yasuo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Dopamine; Estrogen; Neural circuitry; Odor preference; Orexin; Postejaculatory refractoriness; Preoptic area; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OREXIN; SEX HORMONE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; COPULATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EJACULATION; ESTRUS; FOREBRAIN; LIBIDO; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PREOPTIC AREA; RODENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SMELLING; ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 47249111723     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1417.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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