Clitoral stimulation induces conditioned place preference and Fos activation in the rat

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-118

  Parada, Mayte ^a   Chamas, Liliane ^a,b   Censi, Sabrina ^a   Coria Avila, Genaro ^b   Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Brain activation; Female rat; Genitosensory stimulation; Sexual reward

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLITORIS STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HABENULA; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEGMENTUM; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CLITORIS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74749091877     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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