Sexual experience increases oxytocin receptor gene expression and protein in the medial preoptic area of the male rat

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1688-1697

  Gil, Mario ^a,b   Bhatt, Renu ^a,c   Picotte, Katie B ^a   Hull, Elaine M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GURU GHASIDAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Medial preoptic area; Oxytocin; Oxytocin receptor; Rats; Sexual behavior; Sexual experience

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION LATENCY; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MATING; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UPREGULATION;

HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; RATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EXPERIENCE;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OXYTOCIN; PREOPTIC AREA; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84883657685     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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