Male reproductive systems under chronic fluoxetine or trimipramine treatment

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 479-485

  Taylor, George ^a   Bardgett, Mark ^a,b   Csernansky, John ^b   Early, Terry ^c   Haller, John ^b   Scherrer, Jeff ^a   Womack, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Antidepressants; Copulation; Dopamine; Metabolism; Rat; Serotonin; Sexual motivation; Steroids

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DOPAMINE; FLUOXETINE; SEROTONIN; TESTOSTERONE; TRIMIPRAMINE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DRUG EFFECT; EJACULATION; FEMALE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029864227     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02088-8     Document Type: Article

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