Sexual behavior in male rats after nitric oxide synthesis inhibition

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 139-143

  Bialy, Michal ^a   Beck, Józef ^a   Abramczyk, Piotr ^a   Trzebski, Andrzej ^a   Przybylski, Jacek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Behavior; Nitric oxide; Rat; Sexual

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COPULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030185411     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02272-4     Document Type: Article

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