Difference in glycohistochemical lectin staining of collagen fibers in the corpora cavernosa of normal and impotent men

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 187-193

  Raviv, Gil ^a   Wespes, Eric ^a   Vanegas, Juan Pablo ^a   Petein, Michel ^b   Schulman, Claude C ^a   Kiss, Robert ^c   Danguy, André ^c  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fibrous skeleton; impotence; lectin histochemistry; penis

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; LECTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLAGEN METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLYCOSYLATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; MALE; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENESIS; REVASCULARIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; COLLAGEN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GLYCOSYLATION; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; LECTINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS;

EID: 0029944991     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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