Peri-pubertal exposure to testicular hormones organizes response to novel environments and social behaviour in adult male rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 73, Issue , 2015, Pages 135-141

  Brown, Gillian R ^a   Kulbarsh, Kyle D ^a   Spencer, Karen A ^a   Duval, Camille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Castration; Exploration; Sex differences; Sexual behaviour; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIGHT DARK BOX TEST; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTICULAR HORMONES;

EID: 84937912725     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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