Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Neural and Hormonal Controls over Female Reproductive Behaviors

Lee Ming Kow, A. W. Lee, Carolyn Klinge, Margaret Warner, Jan Ake Gustafsson, D. W. Pfaff

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Abstract

Building on well-established mechanisms that produce the primary female mating behavior, lordosis, research is extending into mechanisms for sexual arousal. Genes and neurochemical pathways supporting sexual arousal are reviewed, and four neurochemical/biophysical routes by which generalized arousal could influence sexual arousal are charted.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMolecular and Cellular Mechanisms
PublisherElsevier
Pages55-82
Number of pages28
Volume3
ISBN (Print)9780128036082
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Keywords

  • Alzheimer disease
  • Arousal
  • Behavior
  • Differentiation
  • Epigenetics
  • Estrogens
  • Genomic
  • Histamine
  • Histone
  • Hypothalamus
  • Lordosis
  • MARK2
  • Mitochondria
  • Mu opioid
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Norepinephrine
  • Opioid
  • PINK1
  • Parkinson disease
  • Prostaglandin D
  • Sex
  • Sexual arousal
  • Transcription
  • Transport

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Medicine(all)
  • Neuroscience(all)

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