Effects of pretraining treatment with testosterone on successive and anticipatory negative contrast

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 933-937

  Justel, Nadia ^a   Ruetti, Eliana ^b   Mustaca, Alba E ^a   Papini, Mauricio R ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consummatory anticipatory contrast; Consummatory successive negative contrast; Rats; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONSUMMATORY ANTICIPATORY NEGATIVE CONTRAST; CONSUMMATORY SUCCESSIVE NEGATIVE CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMOTIONS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTIVATION; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SUCROSE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 82655170607     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.11.012     Document Type: Article

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