Dehydroepiandrosterone alleviates copulatory disorder induced by social stress in male rats

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 612-618

  Mizuno, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yotsuyanagi, Satoshi ^a   Nagasaka, Yasuhiro ^a   Namiki, Mikio ^a   Pfaus, James G ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal models; Endocrinologic studies of sexual function; Pharmacologic studies in sexual function; Sex steroid replacement

Indexed keywords

2 [4 METHOXY 3 (2 PHENYLETHOXY)PHENYL] N,N DIPROPYLETHYLAMINE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PRASTERONE; SIGMA 1 OPIATE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 33745227378     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2006.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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