Presence and Absence of Sex Differences in Structure and Function of the Brain Oxytocin System: Implications for Understanding the Regulation of Social Behavior

Sex Differences in the Central Nervous System

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 247-295

  Dumais, Kelly M ^a   Veenema, Alexa H ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Female; Humans; Male; Mice; Oxytocin; Oxytocin receptor; Rats; Sex; Social behavior; Voles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960830702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-802114-9.00011-1     Document Type: Chapter

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