Sensory and somatomotor components of the "sensory branch" of the pudendal nerve in the male rat

Brain Research

Volumn 1222, Issue , 2008, Pages 149-155

  Pastelín, César Feliciano ^a   Zempoalteca, René ^a   Pacheco, Pablo ^b,c   Downie, John W ^d   Cruz, Yolanda ^a  

^a CENTRO TLAXCALA DE BIOLOGÍA DE LA CONDUCTA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Foreskin; Peripheral nerve; Urogenital

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; EJACULATION; GANGLION; INNERVATION; MICTURITION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PELVIS; PENIS ERECTION; PENIS GLANS; PREPUCE; PREPUTIAL GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; URETHRA; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; MALE; MUSCLES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PENIS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; URETHRA;

GLANS; RATTUS;

EID: 46749148727     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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