Dopamine receptors in the ventral tegmental area modulate male sexual behavior in rats

The mesocorticolimbic dopamine tract is considered to be a substrate for motivation and reward as well as for locomotor behavior. The present experiments assessed the role of dopamine cell bodies in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), the source of this tract, in the copulatory behavior of male rats....

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Veröffentlicht in:	Brain research 1990-03, Vol.512 (1), p.1-6
Hauptverfasser:	Hull, Elaine M., Bazzett, Terence J., Warner, Robert K., Eaton, Robert C., Thompson, James T.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Action Potentials - drug effects Animals Apomorphine Apomorphine - pharmacology Behavioral psychophysiology Biological and medical sciences cis-Flupenthixol Depolarization block Dopamine Flupenthixol - pharmacology Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Male Motivation Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Rats Receptors, Dopamine - drug effects Receptors, Dopamine - physiology Sexual behavior Sexual Behavior, Animal - physiology Tegmentum Mesencephali - drug effects Tegmentum Mesencephali - metabolism Tegmentum Mesencephali - physiology Ventral tegmental area
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