Methamphetamine facilitates female sexual behavior and enhances neuronal activation in the medial amygdala and ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 197-208

  Holder, Mary K ^a   Hadjimarkou, Maria M ^a   Zup, Susan L ^a   Blutstein, Tamara ^a   Benham, Rebecca S ^a   McCarthy, Margaret M ^a   Mong, Jessica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine neurotransmission; Lordosis; Neuronal activation; Proceptive behavior; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; METHAMPHETAMINE; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT ANIMAL; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; LOCOMOTION; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FEMALE; HYPERKINESIS; METHAMPHETAMINE; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 73949092393     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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