Sexual incentive motivation in male rats requires both androgens and estrogens

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 341-351

  Attila, Martti ^a   Oksala, Riikka ^a   Ågmo, Anders ^b  

^a ORION CORPORATION   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Dihydrotestosterone; Fadrozole; Sexual behavior; Sexual incentive motivation

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FADROZOLE; GONADOTROPIN; SILASTIC; TESTOSTERONE; ANDROSTANOLONE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; COPULATION; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL; COPULATION; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTROGENS; FADROZOLE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINAL VESICLES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77953360098     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.08.011     Document Type: Article

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