Pain reduces sexual motivation in female but not male mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 5747-5753

  Farmer, Melissa A ^a,b   Leja, Alison ^a   Foxen Craft, Emily ^a   Chan, Lindsey ^a   MacIntyre, Leigh C ^a   Niaki, Tina ^a   Chen, Mengsha ^a   Mapplebeck, Josiane C S ^a   Tabry, Vanessa ^a   Topham, Lucas ^a   Sukosd, Melissa ^a   Binik, Yitzchak M ^a,b   Pfaus, James G ^c   Mogil, Jeffrey S ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Motivation; Paced mating; Pain; Sex difference; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; MELANOTAN II; PREGABALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFLAMMATORY PAIN; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MOTIVATION;

MOTIVATION; PACED MATING; PAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ALPHA-MSH; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; APOMORPHINE; CARRAGEENAN; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LIBIDO; MALE; MICE; MOTIVATION; PAIN; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ZYMOSAN;

EID: 84899486188     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5337-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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