Oxytocin injected into the ventral tegmental area induces penile erection and increases extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus of male rats

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  European Journal of Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2007-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05721.xPMID 17672853
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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