Mating-relevant olfactory stimuli activate the rat brain in an age-dependent manner

NeuroReport

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1077-1083

  Tobiansky, Daniel J ^a   Hattori, Tomoko ^a   Scott, Julia M ^a   Nutsch, Victoria L ^a   Roma, Peter G ^b   Dominguez, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Fos; hypothalamus; olfaction; sexual behavior; testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GONADORELIN; PROTEIN FOS; TESTOSTERONE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MATING; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TEGMENTUM; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL;

EID: 84870172723     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32835b6ec1     Document Type: Article

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