Preventing L-NAME inhibitory effects on rat sexual behavior with hydralazine, isradipine or captopril co-treatment

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 265-272

  Ferraz, Marcos Rochedo ^a   Ferraz, Marcia Martins Dias ^a   Santos, Ricardo ^a   Soares de Moura, Roberto ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antihypertensive agents; Captopril; Hydralazine; Isradipine; L NAME; Nitric oxide; Penile erection dysfunction; Sex; Sexual behavior temporal patterning

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ARGININE; CAPTOPRIL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENZYME INHIBITOR; HYDRALAZINE; ISRADIPINE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG INTERACTION; DRUG MECHANISM; EJACULATION; FEMALE; INHIBITION KINETICS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME;

EID: 0038784683     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(03)00077-7     Document Type: Article

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