Publication Date:
1983-06-03
Description:
Increases in penile circumference during sleep-related erections in human subjects closely reflected increases in penile blood flow, and bursts of activity in the bulbocavernosus and ischiocavernosus muscles were temporally related to these increases. The penile arterial system and the perineal muscles appear to have important coordinated roles in human penile erection. Monitoring sleep-related erections and penile blood flow holds promise for the study of erectile mechanisms and dysfunction and for screening of drugs.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Karacan, I -- Aslan, C -- Hirshkowitz, M -- AG02414-03/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1983 Jun 3;220(4601):1080-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6844930" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adult
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Electroencephalography
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Electromyography
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Electrooculography
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Heart Rate
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Humans
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Male
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Penis/blood supply/*physiology
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Sleep/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
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