Sleep-related penile erections do not occur in rats during carbachol-induced rapid eye movement sleep

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 585-587

  Gulia, Kamalesh Kumari ^a   Mallick, Hruda Nanda ^a   Kumar, Velayudhan Mohan ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Carbachol; Penile erection; Pontine tegmentum; REM sleep

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; MALE; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PENILE ERECTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 4143048973     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.02.019     Document Type: Article

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