Orphanin FQ in the mediobasal hypothalamus facilitates sexual receptivity through the deactivation of medial preoptic nucleus mu-opioid receptors

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 540-548

  Sanathara, Nayna M ^a   Moraes, Justine ^a   Kanjiya, Shrey ^a   Sinchak, Kevin ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Opioid receptors; Arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus; Estradiol; Lordosis; Medial preoptic nucleus; ORL 1; Orphanin FQ; Progesterone; UFP 101; Ventral medial nucleus of the hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; ESTRADIOL; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NOCICEPTIN; OPIOID RECEPTOR LIKE RECEPTOR 1; PROGESTERONE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE INHIBITION; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; LORDOSIS; MALE; MEDIOBASAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MOTOR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; OPIOID PEPTIDES; POSTURE; PREOPTIC AREA; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 80555149439     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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