1973
DOI: 10.1159/000122231
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New Facts Concerning the Role Played by the Ventromedial Nucleus in the Control of Estrous Cycle Duration and Sexual Receptivity in the Rat

Abstract: Bilateral lesions of the ventromedial nucleus(VMN) were performed in the 3rd cycle of a sequence of 4-day cycles in Wistar rats by means of stereotaxically-oriented platinum unipolar electrodes. Small (SVMN) or large (LVMN) lesions were produced by the passage of a cathodic current for 7 or 14 sec, respectively. Groups of intact 4-day cyclic and 5-day cyclic rats, and of dorsomedial nucleus (DMN) lesioned and VMN sham (SH) operated females served as controls. A modification of the duration of one or both of th… Show more

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“…Lesions of the MBH have been shown to inhibit sexual behavior in female rats [5,6,17,20], while lesions of the POA result in facilitation of sexual responsiveness in female rats and guinea pigs [30. 34],…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Lesions of the MBH have been shown to inhibit sexual behavior in female rats [5,6,17,20], while lesions of the POA result in facilitation of sexual responsiveness in female rats and guinea pigs [30. 34],…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The area controlling female sexual behavior has been located in the region of the posterior border of the optic chiasma [Law and M eager, 1958] and/or in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus [Kennedy, 1964;Carrer et al, 1974] by lesion experiments and in the preoptic area [Lisk, 1962] and/or in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypo thalamus [Dorner et al, 1968] by implantation of E. Cyclic secretion of Gns is controlled by the preoptic-suprachiasmatic area and tonic secretion by the ventromedial-arcuate complex [Barraclough and Gorski, 1961]. The topo graphical localization of these systems may overlap, but their neuronal organization would be different.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The amygdala consists of a number of nuclei, including the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract, bed nucleus of the olfactory tract, anterior amygdaloid area, accessory basal nucleus, basal nucleus and lateral nucleus (Pitkä nen et al, 2000;de Olmos et al, 2004), and the amygdala has been linked to emotion (de Vito and Smith, 1982;Ansah et al, 2010;Ponomarev et al, 2010), memory (Maren, 1999;Savage and Guarino, 2010), sexual functioning (Carrer et al, 1973;Carrer, 1978;Holder and Mong, 2010) and neuroendocrine functioning Taleisnik, 1978, 1980). From the amygdala, the perirhinal cortex receives projections from the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract, accessory basal nucleus, basal nucleus and lateral nucleus Price, 1974, 1977;McDonald and Jackson, 1987;Pikkarainen and Pitkä nen, 2001;Furtak et al, 2007b) with area 35 receiving the heaviest projections from the amygdala compared to area 36 and the accessory basal and lateral nuclei being the most prominent origins of these projections (Pitkä nen et al, 2000).…”
Section: Subcortical Afferents and Efferents Of The Perirhinal Cortexmentioning
confidence: 99%