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  • Title: Age-related changes in apomorphine-induced erections.
    Author: Varrin S, Heaton JP.
    Journal: Neurobiol Aging; 1992; 13(1):175-7. PubMed ID: 1542377.
    Abstract:
    Advancing age produces a noticeable and well-documented decline in erectile function in humans. The effects of aging on the ability of apomorphine to stimulate erection and yawning behavior in rats was studied in our bioassay for potency. At the age of seven months, rats failed to respond to the same dose of apomorphine which, just one month earlier, produced erections. Erectile function was then tested in thirty-two seven-month-old rats naive to apomorphine injections, and these rats also failed to respond. Experimentally naive rats of six months of age were then tested and apomorphine produced reliable erections. It is felt that an alteration in dopamine autoreceptor function may be occurring in the central nervous system of rats at approximately seven months of age rendering them incapable of responding to apomorphine with penile erections.
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