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The effects of selective D2-dopaminergic receptor stimulation with LY163502 on male rat copulatory behavior were evaluated. LY163502 (25 ng/kg to 25Μg/kg s. c.) produced increases in the percentage of sexually inactive rats displaying mounting behavior and ejaculating during the test period. Within this same dose range, LY163502 administration induced an increase in the percentage of non-ejaculator rats that were capable of ejaculation. These findings are viewed as evidence that LY163502 can initiate sexual behavior and lower the threshold for ejaculation. The effects of LY163502 were further evaluated in rats that were capable of ejaculation during the test period. LY163502 (25 ng/kg to 25Μg/kg s. c. or p. o.) induced significant reductions in ejaculatory latency. These effects were blocked by prior treatment with centrally active dopaminergic antagonists, RO 22-1319 and sulpiride, but not with a peripherally active antagonist, domperidone.
LY163502 administration was also found to inhibit sexual behavior in low doses of 25 pg/kg −10 ng/kg s. c. and in a much larger dose of 25 mg/kg s. c. These inhibitory effects are viewed as behavioral manifestations of selective dopaminergic autoreceptor activation with low doses and as the disruption of sexual behavior by induction of intense stereotypic behavior with high doses.
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Foreman, M.M., Hall, J.L. Effects of D2-dopaminergic receptor stimulation on male rat sexual behavior. J. Neural Transmission 68, 153–170 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02098495
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