Mounting and brief noncontact exposure of males to receptive females facilitate reflexive erection in rats, even after hypogastric nerve section

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 413-421

  Sachs, Benjamin D ^a   Liu, Yian Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulation; Estrous female; Hypogastric nerves; Penile erection; Sexual arousal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HYPOGASTRIC NERVE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFLEX; SEXUAL AROUSAL;

EID: 0032443638     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00192-9     Document Type: Article

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