Sexual arousal, is it for mammals only?

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 645-655

  Ball, Gregory F ^a   Balthazart, Jacques ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Appetitive sexual behavior; Consummatory sexual behavior; Dopamine; Japanese quail; Sexual behavior; Sexual learning; Sexual motivation

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

BIRD; CLOACA; COPULATION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; EGR 1 GENE; FOS GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MAMMAL; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIRDS; BRAIN; CLOACA; COPULATION; DEOXYGLUCOSE; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79957626264     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.11.001     Document Type: Review

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