Afferents originating from the dorsal penile nerve excite oxytocin cells in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 733, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 292-296

  Yanagimoto, Masahiro ^a   Honda, Kazumasa ^a   Goto, Yukio ^a   Negoro, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Castration; Dorsal penile nerve; Electrical stimulation; Oxytocin cell; Paraventricular nucleus; Rat; Tactile stimulation

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TACTILE STIMULATION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030590491     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00800-1     Document Type: Article

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