Adult partner preference and sexual behavior of male rats exposed prenatally to betamethasone

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 163-167

  Piffer, Renata C ^a   Garcia, Patrícia C ^a   Pereira, Oduvaldo C M ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain sexual differentiation; Corticotherapy; Male rat; Prenatal betamethasone; Sexual behavior; Sexual partner preference; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EJACULATION; LORDOSIS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATERNAL BLOOD; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BETAMETHASONE; BODY WEIGHT; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GENITALIA; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 67649505389     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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