Androgenic regulation of NO availability in rat penile erection

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 110-115

  Reilly, Christopher M ^a   Zamorano, Pedro ^a   Stopper, Vivienne S ^a   Mills, Thomas M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

nitric oxide; Rats; testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ARGININE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARGININE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROARGININE; NITROPRUSSIDE; ORCHIECTOMY; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030987422     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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