Blockade of androgen receptor in the medial amygdala inhibits noncontact erections in male rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 295-301

  Bialy, Michal ^a   Nikolaev Diak, Anna ^a   Kalata, Urszula ^a   Nikolaev, Evgeni ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Androgen receptors; Arousal; Noncontact erections; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTA 1,4,6 TRIENE 3,17 DIONE; ESTRADIOL; FLUTAMIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GROOMING; HORMONE INHIBITION; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; SEXUAL AROUSAL;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; PENILE ERECTION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

EID: 79952806819     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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