Increased corpus cavernosum smooth muscle tone associated with partial bladder outlet obstruction is mediated via Rho-kinase

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 289, Issue 4 58-4, 2005, Pages

  Chang, Shaohua ^a   Hypolite, Joseph A ^a   Zderic, Stephen A ^b   Wein, Alan J ^a   Chacko, Samuel ^a   DiSanto, Michael E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus cavernosum; Erectile dysfunction; Lower urinary tract symptoms; Smooth muscle myosin phosphorylation; Y 27632

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RHO KINASE; RHO KINASE ALPHA; RHO KINASE BETA; RHO KINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; IMPOTENCE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PENIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RABBITS; SMOOTH MUSCLE MYOSINS; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 25844471034     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00717.2003     Document Type: Article

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