Diminished neurogenic but not pharmacological erections in the 2- to 3- month experimentally diabetic F-344 rat

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 272, Issue 4 41-4, 1997, Pages

  Rehman, Jamil ^a   Chenven, Eric ^a   Brink, Peter ^b   Peterson, Beth ^b   Walcott, Benjamin ^b   Wen, Yan Ping ^a   Melman, Arnold ^a   Christ, George ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomic neuropathy; diabetes; erectile dysfunction; Fischer 344 rat; innervation density; intracavernous pressure; partial pancreatectomy; penile reflexes; streptozotocin; synpatophysin

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BLOOD VESSEL INNERVATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PANCREAS RESECTION; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

EID: 0030938777     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.272.4.h1960     Document Type: Article

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