Is prolactin the biological 'off switch' for human sexual arousal?

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-243

  Levin, Roy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; DOPAMINE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; OXYTOCIN; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; SILDENAFIL; VASOPRESSIN;

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; EJACULATION; EJACULATION DISORDER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HETEROSEXUALITY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; LACTATION; LIBIDO; MALE FERTILITY; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; ORGASM; PENIS ERECTION; REFRACTORY PERIOD; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUALITY; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

EID: 0037615225     PISSN: 14681994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1468199031000099488     Document Type: Review

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