Sexual experience affects reproductive behavior and preoptic androgen receptors in male mice

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 472-478

  Swaney, William T ^a   Dubose, Brittany N ^b   Curley, James P ^b   Champagne, Frances A ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Astrogen receptor; Hypothalamus; Olfaction; Preoptic area; Reproduction; Sexual behavior; Sexual experience; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING; SNIFFING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREOPTIC AREA; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84859099307     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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