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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 8.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2011 Jun 13;190:228–238. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.05.056

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Androgen receptor (AR)-immunoreactivity (ir) in the medial amygdala after exposure to various chemosensory stimuli gonad-intact (a) and testosterone-replaced (b) male hamsters. Conspecific and heterospecific stimuli significantly altered the number of AR-ir cells in different areas across the medial amygdala in gonad-intact animals (a). Conversely, there were no significant changes in testosterone-replaced castrates (b). Asterisk = significantly greater than control ( p<.05), a,b,c= significantly greater than MMU, fFGS, and mFGS respectively (p<.001 for all). CS= clean swab, HVF= hamster vaginal fluid, fFGS= female flank gland secretion, mFGS= male flank gland secretion, MMU= male mouse urine, MeA= anterior medial amygdala, MeP= posterior medial amygdala, d= dorsal subnucleus, v=ventral subnucleus.