PMID- 6825760 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19830415 LR - 20190722 IS - 0014-4886 (Print) IS - 0014-4886 (Linking) VI - 79 IP - 3 DP - 1983 Mar TI - Permanent deficits in lordosis behavior in female rats with lesions of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus. PG - 714-9 AB - Bilateral lesions of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus (VMN) significantly attentuated lordosis behavior in the female rat. The degree of this deficit was significantly correlated with the amount of damage to the VMN. There was no improvement in lordosis performance even after an extended recovery period. FAU - Mathews, D AU - Mathews D FAU - Donovan, K M AU - Donovan KM FAU - Hollingsworth, E M AU - Hollingsworth EM FAU - Hutson, V B AU - Hutson VB FAU - Overstreet, C T AU - Overstreet CT LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Exp Neurol JT - Experimental neurology JID - 0370712 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Female MH - *Posture MH - Rats/*physiology MH - Sexual Behavior, Animal/*physiology MH - Time Factors MH - Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus/*physiology EDAT- 1983/03/01 00:00 MHDA- 1983/03/01 00:01 CRDT- 1983/03/01 00:00 PHST- 1983/03/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1983/03/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1983/03/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1016/0014-4886(83)90035-3 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Exp Neurol. 1983 Mar;79(3):714-9. doi: 10.1016/0014-4886(83)90035-3.