Chronic fluoxetine inhibits sexual behavior in the male rat: Reversal with oxytocin

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 355-362

  Cantor, James M ^a,b   Binik, Yitzchak M ^a   Pfaus, James G ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drug; Ejaculation; Male rat; Neuropeptide; Serotonin; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; OXYTOCIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERANCE; EJACULATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIBIDO; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EJACULATION; FLUOXETINE; MALE; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033057907     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130051018     Document Type: Article

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