Castration induces acute vasoconstriction of blood vessels in the rat prostate concomitant with a reduction of prostatic nitric oxide synthase activity

Journal of Urology

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1527-1531

  Hayek, Omar R ^a   Shabsigh, Ahmad ^a   Kaplan, Steven A ^a   Kiss, Alex J ^a   Chen, Min Wei ^a   Burchardt, Tatjana ^a   Burchardt, Martin ^a   Olsson, Carl A ^a   Buttyan, Ralph ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Castration; Endothelial cells; Nitric oxide synthase; Prostate gland

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0032868942     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(05)68352-8     Document Type: Article

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