Treatment with steroid hormones and morphine alters general activity, sexual behavior, and opioid gene expression in female rats

Life Sciences

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 47-54

  Teodorov, E ^a   Camarini, R ^b   Bernardi, M M ^a   Felicio, L F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

General activity; Opioid system; Sexual behavior; Sexual hormones

Indexed keywords

DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; MORPHINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; OPIATE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROOMING; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILITY; LOCOMOTION; LORDOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPRD1 GENE; OPRK1 GENE; OPRM1 GENE; OVARIECTOMY; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

GENERAL ACTIVITY; OPIOID SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HORMONES;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MORPHINE; OVARIECTOMY; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84900519815     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: 18790631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2014.03.021     Document Type: Article

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