The effects of spinal or mesencephalic transections on sleep-related erections and ex-copula penile reflexes in the rat

Sleep

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 409-418

  Schmidt, Markus H ^b,c   Sakai, Kazuya ^a   Valatx, Jean Louis ^a   Jouvet, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Ohio Sleep Medicine and Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Erectile mechanisms; Nocturnal penile tumescence; Paradoxical sleep; Penile erection; REM sleep; Sleep related erection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; PENIS ERECTION; PENIS NOCTURNAL TUMESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REM SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033564720     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/22.4.409     Document Type: Article

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