Biology of female sexual function

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 685-693

  Munarriz, Ricardo ^a   Kim, Noel N ^a   Goldstein, Irwin ^a   Traish, Abdul M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ANATOMY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; VAGINA SECRETION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RABBITS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUALITY;

EID: 0036704130     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-0143(02)00069-1     Document Type: Review

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