Ejaculatory abnormalities in mice with targeted disruption of the gene for heme oxygenase-2

Nature Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-87

  Burnett, Arthur L ^a   Johns, Devin G ^a   Kriegsfeld, Lance J ^b   Klein, Sabra L ^b   Calbin, David C ^a   Demas, Gregory E ^b   Schramm, Lawrence P ^a   Tonegawa, Susumu ^c   Nelson, Randy J ^b   Snyder, Solomon H ^a   Poss, Kenneth D ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEME OXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EJACULATION; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; EJACULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); ISOENZYMES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; URETHRA;

EID: 0031913770     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0198-084     Document Type: Article

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