The effects of melatonin on electrical field stimulation-evoked biphasic twitch responses in the ipsilateral and contralateral rat vasa deferentia after unilateral testicular torsion/detorsion

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 371, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 351-358

  Barun, Süreyya ^a   Ekingen, Gülşen ^b   Vural, Ismail Mert ^a   Türkyilmaz, Zafer ^a   Başaklar, Can ^a   Kale, Nuri ^a   Ercan, Zeynep Sevim ^a   Sarioǧlu, Yusuf ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Detorsion; Ischemia; Melatonin; Reperfusion; Testis; Torsion

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPOSURE; FOLLOW UP; ISOLATED ORGAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS TORSION; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MELATONIN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 23944440174     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00210-005-1073-3     Document Type: Article

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