Scheduled daily mating induces circadian anticipatory activity rhythms in the male rat

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Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Landry, Glenn J ^a   Opiol, Hanna ^a   Marchant, Elliott G ^a   Pavlovski, Ilya ^a   Mear, Rhiannon J ^a   Hamson, Dwayne K ^a   Mistlberger, Ralph E ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; ESTRUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; REWARD; RUNNING; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; EATING; EJACULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 84864352026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040895     Document Type: Article

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