Effects of manipulating progesterone and NMDA receptors in the ventral tegmental area for lordosis of hamsters and rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-80

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a   Marrone, Jennifer ^a   Walf, Alicia ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

GABAA receptors; Midbrain; Neurosteroids; Nongenomic; Sexual receptivity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; DECAHYDRO 6 PHOSPHONOMETHYL 3 ISOQUINOLINECARBOXYLIC ACID; ESTRADIOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROSTEROID; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; LORDOSIS; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; ISOQUINOLINES; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; POSTURE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 49749122646     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-008-1143-6     Document Type: Article

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