we now provide the first evidence for neurally placed crf in the control of a specific hormone-dependent behavioural response and unequivocally demonstrate an extremely potent suppressive effect of crf on sexual behaviour in the female rat when microinfused into the arcuate-ventromedial area of the hypothalamus ( arc-vmh ) and the mesencephalic central grey ( mcg ) .
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