creators_name: Peters, Lawrence C.
creators_name: Kristal, Mark B.
creators_name: Komisaruk, Barry R.
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creators_id: kristal@buffalo.edu
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type: journalp
datestamp: 2007-10-22 10:42:24
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title: Sensory innervation of the external and internal genitalia of the female rat
ispublished: pub
subjects: psy-bio
subjects: behav-neuro-sci
subjects: neuro-anat
full_text_status: public
keywords: sensory innervation, external genitalia, female rat, hypogastric, pelvic nerve, pudendal nerve
abstract: Using a whole-nerve recording method, the genitalia of the female rat were found to receive afferent innervation as follows. Pelvic nerve: vagina, cervix, and perineal skin; hypogastric nerve: cervix and proximal three fifths of the uterus; pudendal nerve: skin of perineum, inner thigh, and clitoral sheath. It is probable that the pudendal and pelvic nerves are activated during copulation, and that all 3 nerves are activated during parturition.
date: 1987
date_type: published
publication: Brain Research
volume: 408
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 199-204
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Peters, Lawrence C. and Kristal, Mark B. and Komisaruk, Barry R.  (1987) Sensory innervation of the external and internal genitalia of the female rat.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/5776/1/nerve.pdf