Stimulation of the medial preoptic area of the hypothalamus in the rat elicits increases in intracavernous pressure

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-4

  Giuliano, François ^a   Rampin, Olivier ^b   Brown, Kathleen ^a   Courtois, Frédérique ^c   Benoit, Gérard ^a   Jardin, Alain ^a  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Medical preoptic area; Penile erection; Rat

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029920566     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12594-5     Document Type: Article

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