Title: Oxytocin stimulates lordosis behavior in female rats
Abstract: Oxytocin, either intraperitoneally injected (200 ng/rat) or intracerebroventricularly infused (1 ng/rat in 4 μl saline) 60 and 15 min respectively before testing, significantly increased the lordosis response to the mounting male of ovariectomized, estrogen/progesterone treated rats. The intracerebroventricular infusion of oxytocin 0.1 ng/rat had no effect; nor did saline. These results indicate that oxytocin increases female receptivity, the site of action probably being in the central nervous system.
Publication Year: 1985
Publication Date: 1985-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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