Estrogen receptor-α is required for estr
✍
Paul E Micevych; Emilie F. Rissman; Jan-Åke Gustafsson; Kevin Sinchak
📂
Article
📅
2003
🏛
John Wiley and Sons
🌐
English
⚖ 308 KB
## Abstract Endogenous opioid circuits are pivotal for the regulation of sexual receptivity. Treatment of mice with morphine, a preferential μ‐opioid receptor (MOR) agonist, severely attenuates lordosis. Estrogen induces internalization of MOR in cell groups of the limbic‐hypothalamic lordosis‐regu