Sensory and motor aspects of the coital reflex in the spinal male rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 97-103

  Carro Juarez M ^a   Rodriguez Manzo G ^b  

^a Escla Med Vet y Zootecnia U   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Coital reflex; Sexual reflex; Spinal reflex; Striated muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COITUS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; EJACULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0342546430     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00143-6     Document Type: Article

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