Diabetes induced erectile dysfunction and apoptosis in penile crura are recovered by insulin treatment in rats

Journal of Urology

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 291-297

  Yamanaka, Masaki ^b   Shirai, Masato ^b   Shiina, Hiroaki ^b   Tanaka, Yuichiro ^b   Tsujimura, Akira ^b   Matsumiya, Kiyomi ^b   Okuyama, Akihiko ^b   Dahiya, Rajvir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diabetes; Impotence; Penis; Rats, Sprague Dawley; Streptozocin

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN TREATMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENILE CRURA; PENIS ERECTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

EID: 0037664875     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000060564.31122.2a     Document Type: Article

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