Abstract
Androgenic steroid (testosterone) has different neurobe-havioral effects including sexual behaviors, rewards,learning and locomotor activity. Moreover opioids andopioid receptors are highly expressed in the brain regionswhich mediate both reward and reproductive behaviors.Thus, we investigated the effect of male sex hormones onmorphine dependence.
Highlights
Sex hormones have a variety of neurobehavioral effects including modulatory roles in anxiety and memory
International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour Meeting abstracts - A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here.
It has been shown that female sex hormones can alter some of the modulatory effects of opioids, such as morphine on seizure susceptibility
Summary
Sex hormones have a variety of neurobehavioral effects including modulatory roles in anxiety and memory. Effects of female sex hormones on morphine dependence Setare Sianati*1,2, Behrang Sharif[1,2,3], Mahsa Sadeghi[1,2], Dina Kalbasi Anaraki[1,2] and Ahmad Reza Dehpour[1] Address: 1Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research Program(INRP), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and 3Department of Pharmacology,School of Pharmacy, ShahidBeheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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