6-Hydroxydopamine lesions enhance progesterone-facilitated lordosis of rats and hamsters, independent of effects on motor behavior

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 218-224

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a   Petralia, Sandra M ^a   Rhodes, Madeline E ^a   DeBold, Joseph F ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caudate Nucleus; Dopamine; Female sexual behavior; Mesolimbic; Non genomic; Nucleus Accumbens; Progestin; Sexual receptivity; Striatum; Ventral Tegmental Area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; OXIDOPAMINE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; HAMSTER; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STAINING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ADRENERGIC AGENTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CRICETINAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OVARIECTOMY; OXIDOPAMINE; POSTURE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTINS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 72649086215     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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