Streptozotocin-induced diabetes in the rat is associated with changes in vaginal hemodynamics, morphology and biochemical markers

BMC Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kim, Noel N ^a   Stankovic, Miljan ^a   Cushman, Tulay T ^a   Goldstein, Irwin ^a   Munarriz, Ricardo ^a   Traish, Abdulmaged M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ARGINASE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCOSE; STREPTOZOCIN; TESTOSTERONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VAGINA; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ARGINASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYCLIC GMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VAGINA;

EID: 33745314449     PISSN: 14726793     EISSN: 14726793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6793-6-4     Document Type: Article

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