Select spinal lesions reveal multiple ascending pathways in the rat conveying input from the male genitalia

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1073-1083

  Hubscher, C H ^a   Reed, W R ^a   Kaddumi, E G ^a   Armstrong, J E ^a   Johnson, R D ^b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; EJACULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GIGANTOCELLULAR RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MATING; MOTIVATION; NERVE TRACT; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; URETHRA; VENTRAL ROOT; VISCERA; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN FUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEDULLARY RETICULAR FORMATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PENIS; PLEASURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETICULAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 77952916832     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.186544     Document Type: Article

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