Age decreases nitric oxide synthase-containing nerve fibers in the rat penis

Journal of Urology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1088-1092

  Carrier, Serge ^a   Nagaraju, Pradeep ^a   Morgan, Daniel M ^a   Baba, Katsuyuki ^a   Nunes, Lora ^a   Lue, Tom F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

impotence; receptors; synaptic

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PAPAVERINE; SYNAPSE RECEPTOR; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IMPOTENCE; INTRACAVERNOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0031013228     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)65147-4     Document Type: Article

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