Sex Steroids Are Necessary in the Second Postnatal Week for the Expression of Male Alloparental Behavior in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochragaster)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 958-963

  Kramer, Kristin M ^a   Perry, Adam N ^b   Golbin, Dina ^b   Cushing, Bruce S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

ATD; critical period; estrogen receptor ; flutamide

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTA 1,4,6 TRIENE 3,17 DIONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL PERIOD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOLE;

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROSTATRIENES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARVICOLINAE; BRAIN; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FLUTAMIDE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 70350105778     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016927     Document Type: Article

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