A New Female Rat Animal Model for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder; Behavioral and Pharmacological Evidence

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-56

  Snoeren, Eelke M S ^a   Chan, Johnny S W ^a   De Jong, Trynke R ^a   Waldinger, Marcel D ^a,b   Olivier, Berend ^a,c   Oosting, Ronald S ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEYENBURG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

8 OH DPAT; Animal model; Apomorphine; Hypoactive sexual desire disorder; Paroxetine; Rat

Indexed keywords

2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; APOMORPHINE; ESTRADIOL; PAROXETINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOACTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE DISORDER; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78650776916     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.01998.x     Document Type: Article

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