Chronic treatment with cyclosporine A in New Zealand rabbit: Aortic and erectile tissue alterations

Urological Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 323-328

  Ragazzi, E ^a   Meggiato, C ^a   Chinellato, A ^a   Italiano, G ^b   Pagano, F ^a   Calabro A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Fidia Advanced Biopolymers   (Italy)

Author keywords

cyclosporine A; impotence; rabbit corpus cavernosum; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYCLOSPORIN A; NORADRENALIN; SODIUM NITRITE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD; CYCLOSPORINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0030466977     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00389787     Document Type: Article

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