Penile erection in response to remote cues from females: Albino rats severely impaired relative to pigmented strains

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 803-808

  Sachs, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Albinism; Behavior genetics; Male sexual response; Noncontact erection; Penile erection; Psychogenic erection; Strain difference

Indexed keywords

ALBINISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030249784     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00158-8     Document Type: Article

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