[en] The authors investigated the behavioral actions of vasotocin (VT) in castrated testosterone-treated male Japanese quail. The appetitive and consummatory components of sexual behavior as well as the occurrence frequency of crows were inhibited, in a dose-dependent manner, by injections of VT. The authors observed opposite effects after injection of the V1 receptor antagonist, dPTyr(Me)AVP. Lower doses of VT were more active after central than after systemic injection, and effects of systemic injections of VT were blocked by a central injection of dPTyr(Me)AVP. The behavioral inhibition was associated with a modified diuresis after systemic but not central injection. These results provide direct evidence that VT affects male sexual behavior in quail by a direct action on the brain independent of its peripheral action on diuresis.
Disciplines :
Zoology Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Castagna, C.
Absil, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron
Foidart, Agnès ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Faculté de médecine) > Service administratif de la Faculté (Médecine)
Balthazart, Jacques ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biologie de la différenciation sexuelle du cerveau
Language :
English
Title :
Systemic and Intracerebroventricular Injections of Vasotocin Inhibit Appetitive and Consummatory Components of Male Sexual Behavior in Japanese Quail
Publication date :
February 1998
Journal title :
Behavioral Neuroscience
ISSN :
0735-7044
eISSN :
1939-0084
Publisher :
American Psychological Association, Washington, United States - District of Columbia
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