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Hormones and Behavior

Volume 4, Issue 4, December 1973, Pages 289-299
Hormones and Behavior

Sexual behavior in male rats treated with estrogen in combination with dihydrotestosterone

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Abstract

Male rats castrated at 30 days of age were treated with estradiol benzoate (dose range: 0.05–50 μg EB for 26 days) and dihydrotestosterone (1 mg DHT for 36 days) as adults. The combined EB and DHT treatments resulted in display of male sexual behavior which did not differ from the behavior shown by intact untreated males or castrated, testosterone propionate (1 mg TP for 26 days) treated males. EB alone or DHT alone were relatively ineffective in activating male behavior in castrated males.

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    Part of the data of this study has appeared previously (Larsson, Södersten, and Beyer, 1973).

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