Nitric oxide and cyclic GMP formation upon electrical field stimulation cause relaxation of corpus cavernosum smooth muscle

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 843-850

  Ignarro, Louis J ^a   Bush, Peggy A ^a   Buga, Georgette M ^a   Wood, Keith S ^a   Fukuto, Jon M ^a   Rajfer, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ELECTRIC FIELD; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION;

ANIMAL; ARGININE; ATROPINE; CYCLIC GMP; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GUANETHIDINE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NITRIC OXIDE; PENIS; POTASSIUM; RABBITS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0025081992     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-291X(90)92168-Y     Document Type: Article

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