Different subregions of the medial preoptic area are separately involved in the regulation of copulation and sexual incentive motivation in male rats: A behavioral and morphological study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 219-225

  Yeh, Kuei Ying ^a   Pu, Hsiao Fung ^b   Wu, Ching Hsiang ^c   Tai, Mei Yun ^a   Tsai, Yuan Feen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Copulatory performance; Dopamine; EGb 761; Medial preoptic area; Partner preference; Sexual motivation

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; TESTOSTERONE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; EJACULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; DOPAMINE; EJACULATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PREOPTIC AREA; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 70349276732     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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