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Galantide stimulates sexual behaviour in male rats
A Benelli1, R Arletti, A Bertolini
1Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena, Italy.
European Journal of Pharmacology
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
While intracerebroventricular injection of galanin (5 micrograms/rat) inhibited sexual behavior in experienced male rats--without producing any other locomotor or behavioral deficit-, injection of the galanin antagonist, galantide, by the same route (1 or 2 micrograms/rat) stimulated sexual behavior (improving arousal, motivation and performance indexes) and antagonized the effect of galanin. These data further suggest that galanin plays a physiological role in male sexual behavior.