Dynamic changes in brain aromatase activity following sexual interactions in males: Where, when and why?

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 789-799

  De Bournonville, Catherine ^a   Dickens, Molly J ^a,c   Ball, Gregory F ^b   Balthazart, Jacques ^a   Cornil, Charlotte A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Copulatory behavior; Estrogen synthesis; Non genomic action of estrogens; Sexual motivation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; MATING; MICRODISSECTION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUAIL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERACTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BRAIN; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUAIL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877022979     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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