Accumulated endogenous NOS inhibitors, decreased NOS activity, and impaired cavernosal relaxation with ischemia

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 282, Issue 6 51-6, 2002, Pages

  Masuda, Hitoshi ^a   Tsujii, Toshihiko ^a   Okuno, Tetsuo ^a   Kihara, Kazunori ^a   Goto, Moritaka ^a   Azuma, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric NG,NG dimethyl L arginine; Corpus cavernosum; L arginine; NG monomethyl L arginine

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CALCIUM ION; CARBACHOL; CYCLIC GMP; N(G) METHYLARGININE; N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ISCHEMIA; ISOLATED ORGAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PATHOGENESIS; PENIS ISCHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TISSUE LEVEL; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0036087469     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00277.2001     Document Type: Article

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