Excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus paragigantocellularis facilitate male sexual behavior but attenuate female sexual behavior in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 175, Issue , 2011, Pages 212-223

  Normandin, J J ^a   Murphy, A Z ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ejaculation; Lateral paragigantocellularnucleus; Orgasm; Penis; Sex differences; Vagina

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; EXCITOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PARAGIGANTOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETICULAR FORMATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 78951468920     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.11.030     Document Type: Article

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