Medial Amygdala Involvement in Discrimination of Same-Species and Closely-Related-Species Male Stimuli in Estrous Female Mesocricetus Hamsters

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 758-763

  delBarco Trillo, Javier ^a   Gulewicz, Kara ^a   Johnston, Robert E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

chemical signal; early immediate genes; medial amygdala; Mesocricetus; species discrimination

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CRICETINAE; DIESTRUS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ESTRUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67949112679     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016439     Document Type: Article

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