Assessment of male sexual behavior in mice

Neuromethods

Volumn 63, Issue , 2011, Pages 357-373

  Park, Jin Ho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulation; Ejaculation; Estradiol; Intromission; Male sexual behavior; Mounting; Post ejaculatory interval; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE;

MUS;

EID: 80054744169     PISSN: 08932336     EISSN: 19406045     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-313-4_22     Document Type: Article

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