List of contributors Dedication Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Sex Steroid Responsive Circuits Regulating Male and Female Reproductive Behaviours: 1. Hormonal influence on neurons of the mating behaviour pathway in male hamsters Ruth I. Wood and Sarah W. Newman 2. Neural circuitry for the hormonal control of male sexual behaviour Pauline Yahr 3. Oestrogen receptor mRNA: neuroanatomical distribution and regulation in three behaviorally relevant physiological models Joan I. Morrell, Christine K. Wagner, Karl F. Malik and Christine A. Lisciotto 4. Hormonal regulation of limbic and hypothalamic pathways Richard B. Simerly Part II. Sex Steroid Interaction with Specific Neurochemical Circuits: 5. Ovarian steroid interactions with hypothalamic oxytocin circuits involved in reproductive behaviour Loretta M. Flanagan and Bruce S. McEwen 6. Gonadal steroid regulation of hypothalamic opioid function Ronald P. Hammer, Jr and Sun Cheung 7. Neonatal and adult effects of gonadal steroids on the cholecystokinin circuit modulating reproductive behaviour Paul Popper, Catherine A. Priest and Paul E. Micevych 8. Cholinergic regulation of female sexual behaviour Gary Dohanich 9. Sex steroid regulation of tachykinin peptides in neuronal circuitry mediating reproductive functions Thomas R. Akesson and Paul E. Micevych 10. Dopaminergic influences on male rat sexual behaviour Elaine M. Hull 11. Studying neurotransmitter systems to understand development and function of sex differences in the brain: the case of Vasopressin Geert J. De Vries Part III. Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Regulated by Sex Steroids: 12. Neurosteroids and neuroactive steroids Paul Robel and Etienne-Emile Baulieu 13. Estrogen synthesis and secretion by the songbird Barney A. Schlinger and Arthur P. Arnold 14. Neurobiological regulation of hormonal response by progestin and estrogen receptors Jeffrey D. Blaustein, Marc J. Tetel and John M. Meredith 15. Molecular actions of steroid hormones and their possible relations to reproductive behaviours Mona Freidin and Donald Pfaff 16. Effects of gonadal steroids on the central nervous system detected by the study of Fos protein expression Gloria E. Hoffman, Rula Abbud, Wei-Wei Le, Barbara Attardi, Kathie Berghorn and M. Susan Smith 17. Developmental interactions of estrogens with the neurotrophins and their receptors C. Dominique Toran-Allerand 18. Gonadal steroid influences on cell-cell interactions in the magnocellular hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system Glenn I. Hatton Index.
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