Age-related alteration of neurturin receptor GFRa2 and nNOS in pelvic ganglia

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1524-1530

  Hisasue, Shin ichi ^a   Kato, Ryuichi ^a   Suetomi, Takahiro ^b   Kato, Kazunori ^a   Suzuki, Kazuhiro ^a   Kobayashi, Ko ^a   Itoh, Naoki ^a   Kiyama, Hiroshi ^c   Tsukamoto, Taiji ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Castration; Cavernous nerve; Erectile dysfunction; Glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha 2 (GFRa2); Major pelvic ganglia (MPG); Neuronal nitric oxide (nNOS); Neurturin

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR ALPHA 2; MESSENGER RNA; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEURTURIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GANGLION; HYPOGONADISM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIS GANGLION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTORS; MALE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PELVIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 33747764163     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2005.07.016     Document Type: Article

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