Journal article
Preoptic knife cuts and sexual behavior in male rats
Abstract
Knife cuts aimed at severing either the medial-lateral or dorsal fiber connections of the medial preoptic-anterior hypothalamus (MPOAH) produced two clearly distinguishable patterns of copulatory deficits in male rats. On the other hand, transverse cuts, which were designed to destroy longitudinal connections on either the anterior or posterior end of the MPOAH, did not affect sexual behavior. Males with sagittal cuts exhibited deficits …
Authors
Szechtman H; Caggiula AR; Wulkan D
Journal
Brain Research, Vol. 150, No. 3, pp. 569–591
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
July 1978
DOI
10.1016/0006-8993(78)90821-1
ISSN
0006-8993