Effect of Tityus serrulatus scorpion venom on the rabbit isolated corpus cavernosum and the involvement of NANC nitrergic nerve fibres

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 435-442

  Teixeira, Cleber E ^a   Bento, Antonio C ^a   Lopes Martins, Rodrigo A B ^a   Teixeira, Simone A ^a   Von Eickestedt, Vera ^b   Muscará, Marcelo N ^a   Arantes, Eliane C ^c   Giglio, Jose R ^c   Antunes, Edson ^a   De Nucci, Gilberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nitrergic nerves; Nitric oxide; Non adrenergic non cholinergic nerves; ODQ; Scorpion venom; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; APAMIN; APROTININ; ARGININE; BRADYKININ; CAPSAICIN; CHARYBDOTOXIN; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE INHIBITOR; ICATIBANT; IMIDAZOLE; METHYLENE BLUE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; ORNITHINE DERIVATIVE; RUTHENIUM RED; SCORPION VENOM; TETRODOTOXIN; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; MALE; NONADRENERGIC NONCHOLINERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE;

ANIMALS; APROTININ; ATROPINE; BRADYKININ; ENZYME INHIBITORS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PENIS; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SCORPION VENOMS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 15444341549     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0701623     Document Type: Article

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