Female genital sexual arousal: Biochemical mediators and potential mechanisms of dysfunction

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-97

  Traish, Abdulmaged M ^a   Kim, Noel ^a   Munarriz, Ricardo ^a   Goldstein, Irwin ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMINO 6 BORONOHEXANOIC ACID; ARGINASE; CYCLIC GMP; DIQUAFOSOL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; HEXANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HMP 12; INS 45973; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NMI 870; PHENTOLAMINE MESYLATE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; PURINE RECEPTOR; PURINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; REC 2615; SEX HORMONE; SILDENAFIL; TADALAFIL; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARDENAFIL;

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 23744502662     PISSN: 17406765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmec.2004.05.001     Document Type: Review

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