Impaired Neurogenic and Endothelium-Mediated Relaxation of Penile Smooth Muscle from Diabetic Men with Impotence

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 320, Issue 16, 1989, Pages 1025-1030

  de Tejada, Iñigo Saenz ^a   Goldstein, Irwin ^a   Azadzoi, Kazem ^a   Krane, Robert J ^a   Cohen, Richard A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLCHOLINE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; IN VITRO; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NITROPRUSSIDE; PAPAVERINE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; POTASSIUM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024559857     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198904203201601     Document Type: Article

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