title: Prepuberal social rearing conditions and sexual behavior in control and neonatally castrated male rats.
abstract: Male and female sexual behaviors were assessed in control and neonatally castrated male rats that had been housed with a female, a control male, or a neonatally castrated male from day 16 until adulthood. Prepuberal housing conditions had no differential effect on lordosis or ejaculatory potentials of neonatally castrated males tested as adults. A smaller percentage of control males raised with a neonatal castrate ejaculated than did animals housed with a female or a control male. However, a greater proportion of control males caged with a female showed lordosis than did those living with another control male or with a neonatal castrate. The data demonstrate the modulating effects which specific types of social stimulation experienced during early life have on sexual behaviors displayed in adulthood.
mesh_terms: D000728:Androgens / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D003423:Critical Period, Psychological; D004542:Ejaculation; D005783:Gender Identity; D008297:Male; D009919:Orchiectomy; D011187:Posture; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D012934:Social Isolation
chemical_list: D000728:Androgens