Effects of acute and chronic apomorphine on sex behavior and copulation-induced neural activation in the male rat

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 576, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 61-76

  Olivier, Jocelien D A ^a,b   de Jong, Trynke R ^a,b   Jos Dederen, P ^a   van Oorschot, Ruud ^b   Heeren, Dick ^a   Pattij, Tommy ^a,b   Waldinger, Marcel D ^c   Coolen, Lique M ^d   Cools, Alexander R ^a   Olivier, Berend ^b,e   Veening, Jan G ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEYENBURG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Anat and Cell Biology ^*  (Canada)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apomorphine; Dopamine; Ejaculation; Erection; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; EJACULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MATING; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; APOMORPHINE; BRAIN; COPULATION; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 35348947997     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2007.08.019     Document Type: Article

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