A role for ATP-sensitive potassium channels in male sexual behavior

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 366-374

  McDevitt, Melissa A ^a   Thorsness, Robert J ^a   Levine, Jon E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ATP sensitive potassium channels; Preoptic area; Sexual behavior; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR6.2; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE; TOLBUTAMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORCHIECTOMY; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE; TOLBUTAMIDE;

EID: 58849136802     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.08.014     Document Type: Article

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