Pharmacological analysis of male rat sexual behavior

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 365-389

  Bitran, Daniel ^a   Hull, Elaine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; ACTH MSH; Dopamine; GABA; Male sexual behavior; Norepinephrine; Opiates; Oxytocin; Pharmacology; Prolactin; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; AUTACOID; CATECHOLAMINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; OPIATE; OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN; PROLACTIN; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGY; RAT; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPATHETIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CATECHOLAMINES; COPULATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN; SEX BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0342549205     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(87)80008-8     Document Type: Article

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