Blocking oxytocin receptors inhibits vaginal marking to male odors in female Syrian hamsters

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 685-692

  Martinez, Luis A ^a   Albers, H Elliott ^a   Petrulis, Aras ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior hypothalamus; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Medial preoptic area; Olfaction; Precopulatory; Preference; Reproduction; Scent marking

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRIA TERMINALIS; SYRIAN HAMSTER; VAGINA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS, ANTERIOR; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICROINJECTIONS; ODORS; OXYTOCIN; PREOPTIC AREA; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78149280373     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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