1 Introduction: Why Study Feminine Sexual Behavior in Rodents from Neuroendocrine and Molecular Neuroendocrine Perspectives?
Feminine sexual behavior in animals is studied by researchers in a variety of fields for an assortment of reasons. While some are interested in feminine sexual behavior from a strictly behavioral, comparative, or evolutionary perspective, others use it as a biologically significant behavior worthy of study to understand neuroendocrine, cellular, and molecular mechanisms. In this review, we will focus on the background and the research that have contributed to an understanding of the neuroendocrine, cellular, and molecular neuroendocrine underpinnings of this complex set of behaviors.
The neuroendocrine regulation of feminine sexual behaviors has long been used as a model to probe the cellular processes by which hormones act in the brain to result in changes in behavior. There are several reasons why this particular set of behavior lends itself particularly well...
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Work from the authors’ laboratories was supported by the following grants from the National Institutes of Health: NS 19327 (JDB) and MH57442 and MH63954 (SKM). We are grateful to Dr Mary Erskine for her contributions to an earlier comprehensive review of feminine sexual behavior (Blaustein and Erskine, 2002), which provided some of the ideas discussed in this chapter.
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Blaustein, J.D., Mani, S.K. (2007). Feminine Sexual Behavior from Neuroendocrine and Molecular Neurobiological Perspectives. In: Lajtha, A., Blaustein, J.D. (eds) Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30405-2_3
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