Importance of the medial amygdala in rat penile erection evoked by remote stimuli from estrous females

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-160

  Kondo, Yasuhiko ^a   Sachs, Benjamin D ^b   Sakuma, Yasuo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Limbic system; Medial amygdala; Penile erection; Penile reflexes; Rats; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REMOTE SENSING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; COPULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; PENILE ERECTION; RATS; REFLEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030667895     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)02287-0     Document Type: Article

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