Oxytocinergic innervation of autonomic nuclei controlling penile erection in the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1437-1447

  Veronneau Longueville F ^a   Rampin, O ^b   Freund Mercier, M J ^c   Tang, Y ^d   Calas, A ^e   Marson, L ^f   McKenna, K E ^g   Stoeckel, M E ^c   Benoit, G ^a   Giuliano, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erection; Intermediolateral cell column; Oxytocin; Rat; Sacral parasympathetic nucleus; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOTOCIN DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING SITE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; INNERVATION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SYNAPSE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROPHYSINS; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PENILE ERECTION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PSEUDORABIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 18744433407     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00262-6     Document Type: Article

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