Organizational and activational effects of testosterone on masculinization of female physiological and behavioral stress responses

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 6399-6405

  Goel, Nirupa ^a   Bale, Tracy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; BLOOD SAMPLING; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; MOOD DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VIRILIZATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MALE; MICE; OVARIECTOMY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

EID: 57349117646     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0433     Document Type: Article

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