Dopamine Release in the Medial Preoptic Area is Related to Hormonal Action and Sexual Motivation

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 773-779

  Kleitz Nelson, Hayley K ^a   Dominguez, Juan M ^b   Ball, Gregory F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetitive behavior; Birds; In vivo microdialysis; Male sexual behavior; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CLOACA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINE RELEASE; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COTURNIX; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTIVATION; PREOPTIC AREA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 78650121243     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021490     Document Type: Article

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