The anxiolytic effect of testosterone in the rat is mediated via the androgen receptor

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 191-195

  Hodosy, Július ^a,b   Zelmanová, Dorota ^a   Majzúnová, Miroslava ^a,c   Filová, Barbora ^a   Malinová, Mária ^a   Ostatníková, Daniela ^a   Celec, Peter ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRATISLAVA   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Anxiety; Behavioural phenotyping; Flutamide; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUTAMIDE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84861074041     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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