Sexual behavior decreases pain sensitivity and stimulates endogenous opioids in male rats

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female

1954 • 2,694 citations

A method for measurement of analgesic activity on inflamed tissue.

1957 • 1,558 citations

β-Endorphin and Adrenocorticotropin Are Selected Concomitantly by the Pituitary Gland

1977 • 1,426 citations

The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics

1976 • 1,403 citations

Analgesia from Electrical Stimulation in the Brainstem of the Rat

1971 • 751 citations

Analgesia induced in vivo by central administration of enkephalin in rat

1976 • 524 citations

Enkephalin may mediate euphoria and drive-reduction reward

1977 • 450 citations

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female

1954 • 399 citations

Effects of coital stimulation upon behavior of the female rat.

1972 • 264 citations

β-ENDORPHIN AND ADRENOCORTICOTROPIN ARE SECRETED CONCOMITANTLY BY THE PITUITARY GLAND

1978 • 242 citations

Differential effects of protein-modifying reagents on receptor binding of opiate agonists and antagonists.

1975 • 237 citations

Induction of Copulatory Behavior in Sexually Inactive Rats by Naloxone

1979 • 202 citations

Endogenous Peptides and Analgesia

1978 • 192 citations

Sexual Behavior: Stimulation by Painful Electrical Shock to Skin in Male Rats

1968 • 180 citations

β-Endorphin and male sexual behavior

1977 • 171 citations

Antinociceptive effects of vaginal stimulation in rats: Neurophysiological and behavioral studies

1977 • 134 citations

Differential effects of protein-modifying reagents on receptor binding of opiate agonists and antagonists.

1975 • 111 citations

Suppression of a spinal and a cranial nerve reflex by vaginal or rectal probing in rats

1971 • 103 citations

Electrophysiological correlates of copulatory behavior in the male rat: Evidence for a sexual inhibitory process.

1973 • 100 citations

Effects of mounting without intromission and intromission without ejaculation on sexual behavior and maze learning.

1961 • 97 citations

Facilitation by opiate antagonists of sexual performance in the male rat

1979 • 68 citations

Sexual Inhibition Is Reduced by Rostral Midbrain Lesions in the Male Rat

1975 • 67 citations

Facilitation of copulatory performance in male rats by naloxone: Effects of hypophysectomy, 17 α-estradiol, and luteinizing hormone releasing hormone

1980 • 64 citations

Drastic changes in the mating behaviour of male rats following lesions in the junction of diencephalon and mesencephalon

1964 • 61 citations

Sexual Behavior: Extreme Reduction of Postejaculatory Refractory Period by Midbrain Lesions in Male Rats

1975 • 59 citations

Plasma corticosterone levels during sexual behavior in male rats

1974 • 47 citations

Glucocorticoids inhibit endorphin synthesis by pituitary cells

1979 • 46 citations

Copulatory behavior and sexual reflexes of male rats treated with naloxone

1981 • 43 citations

Naloxone shortens ejaculation latency in male rats

1979 • 28 citations

Evidence that probing the vaginal cervix is analgesic in rats, using an operant paradigm.

1979 • 25 citations

Do the brain's own endorphins mediate pain inhibition?

1978 • 5 citations

Acceleration and pacing of copulatory performance of male rats by repeated, aversive brain stimulation

1975 • 5 citations