Novel technique for monitoring micturition and sexual function in male rats using telemetry

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Nout, Yvette S ^a,b   Bresnahan, Jacqueline C ^a,b   Culp, Esther ^c   Tovar, C Amy ^a   Beattie, Michael S ^a,b   Schmidt, Markus H ^a,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Ohio Sleep Medicine and Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulbospongiosus; Context specificity; Corpus spongiosum penis; Erection; Urogenital

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; MALE; MATING; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; MALE; PENILE ERECTION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEMETRY; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; URINATION;

EID: 33847700896     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00532.2006     Document Type: Article

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