Decreases in corporeal vascular endothelial growth factor expression precede vasoreactivity changes in cholesterol fed rabbits

Journal of Urology

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1418-1422

  Xie, Donghua ^c   Thompson, Michael A ^c   Pippen, Anne M ^c   Waters, Richard E ^c   Donatucci, Craig F ^a   Annex, Brian H ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Endothelium; Impotence; Muscle, smooth, vascular; Penis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLESTEROL; MESSENGER RNA; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 15044352166     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000149035.98638.33     Document Type: Article

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