Evidence that the nitrergic neurotransmitter and endothelium-derived relaxing factor might be S-Nitrosothiols in the mouse corpus cavernosum

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 209-215

  Büyükafşar, Kansu ^a   Göçmen, Cemil ^b   Seçilmiş, Ata ^b   Karataş, Yusuf ^b   Göktürk, Sinem ^b   Ihsan Kalyoncu, Nuri ^c  

^a Campus Yenişehir ^*  (Turkey)

^b Department of Pharmacology   (Turkey)

^c KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Corpus cavernosum; Endothelium derived relaxing factor; Nitrergic neurotransmitter; Nitric oxide; S nitrosothiols; Thimerosal

Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROSO DERIVATIVE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; THIOL REAGENT; THIOMERSAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PENIS; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROSO COMPOUNDS; PENIS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SULFHYDRYL REAGENTS; THIMEROSAL; VASODILATION;

EID: 0033210029     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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