Effect of chronic stress in prepubertal period on sexual arousal in the male rats
Bulygina, V.V.; Amstislavskaia, T.G.; Maslova, L.N.; Popova, N.K.
Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal Imeni I.M. Sechenova 87(7): 945-952
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-8139 PMID: 11575128 Document Number: 535325
Effects of two models of chronic stress were studied in adult male rats with inherited stress-induced arterial hypertension (ISIAH) and in Wistar rats. Intact males of both rat strains demonstrated a similar behavioural and hormonal activation in sexual arousal. Prepubertal chronic stress decreased the female-induced behavioural response and the effect depended on the character of stress and the animal genotype. No long-lasting effects of pre-pubertal stress on the plasma corticosterone level in males under sexual arousal were observed.