The septal area, site for the central regulation of penile erection during waking and rapid eye movement sleep in rats: A stimulation study

Neuroscience

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1064-1073

  Gulia, K K ^a,b,c   Jodo, E ^a   Kawauchi, A ^d   Miki, T ^d   Kayama, Y ^a   Mallick, H N ^b   Koyama, Y ^e  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^d KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

corpus spongiosum of penis; electrical stimulation; erectile response; lateral septum; medial septum

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PERINEUM; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; SLEEP, REM; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 53949103979     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.08.032     Document Type: Article

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