Demonstration of ejaculation-induced neural activity in the male rat brain using 5-HT(1A) agonist 8-OH-DPAT

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 881-891

  Coolen, Lique M ^a,c   Olivier, Berend ^b   Peters, Hans J P W ^a   Veening, Jan G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; c fos; Medial amygdala; Medical preoptic area; Serotonin; Sexual behavior; Subparafascicular nucleus

Indexed keywords

2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; PROTEIN C FOS; SEROTONIN 1A AGONIST;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030863278     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00258-8     Document Type: Article

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