Responses of medullary reticular formation neurons to input from the male genitalia

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2474-2482

  Hubscher, Charles H ^a   Johnson, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULAR FORMATION; SENSORY STIMULATION;

EID: 0029910541     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.4.2474     Document Type: Article

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