Food restriction dissociates sexual motivation, sexual performance, and the rewarding consequences of copulation in female Syrian hamsters

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 356-370

  Klingerman, Candice M ^a   Patel, Anand ^a   Hedges, Valerie L ^b   Meisel, Robert L ^b   Schneider, Jill E ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned place preference; Energy availability; Hoarding; Lordosis; Sexual reward; Vaginal marking

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HAMSTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LORDOSIS; MATING; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONCOGENE C FOS; PERFORMANCE; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MOTIVATION; SEXUAL PERFORMANCE; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; APPETITE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; CRICETINAE; ENERGY INTAKE; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OVARIECTOMY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 79959290166     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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