Paced mating behavior persists in rats with vaginocervical Lidocaine

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 139-141

  Meerts, Sarah H ^a   Boisvert, Eilish M ^a   Spjut, Kersti A ^a   Clark, Ann S ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervix; Genitosensory; Local anesthetic; Sexual behavior; Sexual motivation; Vagina

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LIDOCAINE; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VAGINA;

EID: 71849095338     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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