Serotonin impairs copulation and attenuates ejaculation-induced glutamate activity in the medial preoptic area

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 554-557

  Dominguez, Juan M ^a   Hull, Elaine M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Ejaculation; Glutamate; Libido; Preoptic; Serotonin; SSRI

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EJACULATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955804237     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020353     Document Type: Article

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