Penile desensitization does not affect postcopulatory genital autogrooming in rats: Evidence for central motor patterning

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 1001-1006

  Bitran, Daniel ^a   Sachs, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal penile nerve; Grooming; Motor programs; Penile anesthesia; Penile deafferentation; Sexual behavior; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

CETACAINE; KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; DORSAL PENIS NERVE; GROOMING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

4-AMINOBENZOIC ACID; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANIMAL; BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; BENZOCAINE; CETRIMONIUM COMPOUNDS; DENERVATION; DRUG COMBINATIONS; GROOMING; MALE; PENIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEX BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TETRACAINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0024355974     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(89)90228-X     Document Type: Article

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