Impaired sexual response after lesions of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus in male rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1361-1367

  Liu, Yian Cheng ^b   Salamone, John D ^b   Sachs, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; RAT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PENILE ERECTION; RADIO WAVES; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031437351     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.6.1361     Document Type: Article

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