Hormones and Female Sexual Behavior

Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 49-56

  Blaustein, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulatory behavior; Estradiol; Estrogen receptor; Genitosensory stimulation; Lordosis; Paracopulatory behavior; Progestative behavior; Progesterone; Progestin receptor; Sexual behavior; Vaginocervical stimulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954666037     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045396-5.00199-8     Document Type: Chapter

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