Aggressive Behaviors in Adult SF-1 Knockout Mice That Are Not Exposed to Gonadal Steroids During Development

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 876-884

  Grgurevic, Neza ^a   Büdefeld, Tomaz ^a   Rissman, Emilie F ^b   Tobet, Stuart A ^c   Majdic, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences

Author keywords

aggression; sex steroids; sexual differentiation; steroidogenic factor 1; VMH

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; SEX HORMONE; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENAL GLAND TRANSPLANTATION; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE INHIBITION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENAL GLANDS; AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CASTRATION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

EID: 50849091975     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.4.876     Document Type: Article

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