Chemosignals and hormones in the neural control of mammalian sexual behavior

Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 255-267

  Petrulis, Aras ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulation; Copulatory; Mammal; Odor; Olfactory; Pheromone; Precopulatory; Scent; Sex; Vomeronasal

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

BED NUCLEUS OF THE STRIA TERMINALIS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CHEMICAL CUE; COPULATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; URINE ODOR; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; ZONA INCERTA;

COPULATION; COPULATORY; MAMMAL; ODOR; OLFACTORY; PHEROMONE; PRECOPULATORY; SCENT; SEX; VOMERONASAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; NEURONS; PHEROMONES, HUMAN; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84884594419     PISSN: 00913022     EISSN: 10956808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2013.07.007     Document Type: Review

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