Changes in neuropeptide Y (NPY) - Nerves and in NPY binding in the seminal vesicles and prostate gland of the streptozotocin-treated diabetic rat

Emirates Medical Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 221-227

  Mensah Brown, Eric Kwodwo ^a   Adem, Abdu ^a   Conlon, John Michael ^a   Morrison, John ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Male reproductive dysfunction; Neuropeptide Y; NPY binding; Prostate; Seminal vesicle

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYNAPSE;

EID: 33644910162     PISSN: 02506882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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