A forebrain-retrorubral pathway involved in male sex behavior is GABAergic and activated with mating in gerbils

Neuroscience

Volumn 175, Issue , 2011, Pages 162-168

  Simmons, D A ^a   Hoffman, N W ^a   Yahr, P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kilpatrick Stockton LLP   (United States)

Author keywords

A8; Medial preoptic nucleus; Retrorubral field; Sexually dimorphic area; Ventral bed nuclei of the stria terminalis

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICIPATION; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GERBIL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MATING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETRORUBRAL FIELD; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GERBILLINAE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROSENCEPHALON; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 78951478520     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.11.048     Document Type: Article

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