Estrogen and the Neural Mediation of Female-Male Mounting in the Rat.

Sexually receptive females mount sexually sluggish males to entice them to copulate, and estrogen and male olfactory cues mediate this female-male mounting (EMM) in the rat. This study examined whether brain regions that concentrate steroid hormones and receive olfactory projections were important f...

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Published in:	Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 123; no. 2; pp. 369 - 382
Main Authors:	Afonso, Veronica M., Lehmann, Hugo, Tse, Maric
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association April 2009
Subjects:	Animal sexual behavior Laboratory rats Brain function localization Estrogen
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