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Science 6 March 1981:
Vol. 211. no. 4486, pp. 1070 - 1072
DOI: 10.1126/science.7466382
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Science, Vol 211, Issue 4486, 1070-1072
Copyright © 1981 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Vaginocervical stimulation selectively increases metabolic activity in the rat brain

TO Allen, NT Adler, JH Greenberg, and M Reivich

Vaginocervical stimulation affects progesterone secretion, sperm transport, sexual receptivity, locomotion, and perception of pain in female rats. In this experiment, vaginocervical stimulation produced statistically significant increases in the metabolic uptake of carbon-14-labeled 2-deoxy-D-glucose in the following brain areas (ordered by magnitude of uptake): medial preoptic, mesencephalic reticular formation, bed nucleus of stria terminalis, dorsal raphe, and globus pallidus. The results provide information about the concurrent processing of sensory stimulation by several neural areas and indicate that the medial preoptic area is a receiving area for copulatory stimulation.


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