Modulation of the arcuate nucleus-medial preoptic nucleus lordosis regulating circuit: A role for GABAB receptors

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 136-143

  Sinchak, Kevin ^a   Dewing, Phoebe ^b   Ponce, Laura ^a   Gomez, Liliana ^a   Christensen, Amy ^b   Berger, Max ^b   Micevych, Paul ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Opioid receptor; Lordosis behavior

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; [3 (3,4 DICHLOROBENZYLAMINO)PROPYL](DIETHOXYMETHYL)PHOSPHINIC ACID; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LORDOSIS; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GABA-B RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84879581269     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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