Sexual experience influences mating-induced activity in nitric oxide synthase-containing neurons in the medial preoptic area

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 579, Issue , 2014, Pages 92-96

  Nutsch, Victoria L ^a   Will, Ryan G ^a   Hattori, Tomoko ^a   Tobiansky, Daniel J ^a   Dominguez, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulation; Fos; Glutamate; Nitric oxide; Preoptic area; Sexual experience

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN FOS; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCATALYSIS; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATING; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EXPERIENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EJACULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPTIC AREA;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; EJACULATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84905248187     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.07.021     Document Type: Article

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