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Mechanisms underlying sexual and affiliative behaviors of mice: relation to generalized CNS arousal.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience - 1 Dec 2006
Shelley Deborah N, Choleris Elena, Kavaliers Martin, Pfaff Donald W
Abstract excerpt
The field of social neuroscience has grown dramatically in recent years and certain social responses have become amenable to mechanistic investigations. Toward that end, there has been remarkable progress in determining mechanisms for a simple sexual behavior, lordosis behavior. This work has proven that specific hormone-dependent biochemical reactions in specific parts of the mammalian brain regulate a...
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